Fragments Revealed by Doris Seidler
Fragments Revealed
Doris Seidler
Title
Fragments Revealed
Artist
Year
1952
Technique
burin engraving, etching and aquatint
Image Size
11 13/16 x 10" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
5 of 10
Annotations
dated, titled and editioned in pencil; state annnotation on verso.
Reference
Paper
heavy, cream wove Rives
State
ii/iii
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
DOS103
Price
SOLD
Description
Doris Seidler arrived in the US in 1940 from England where she began to study printmaking with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York and spent almost 10 years working there. Most of the printmakers at Atelier 17 were concentrating on immediacy, spontaneity combined with various intaglio techniques to create the composition. For this inaglio Seidler used a combination of etching, aquatint and burin engraving to achieve the broad variety of lines, tones, and textures. When Seidler showed Hayter the first state of this print he suggested that it was very good but that she should now "destroy" the plate using various techniques. This print is the result of that further working. There is a third state titled "Garden of Dreams".