Black #1

 

Doris Seidler

  1912 - 2010 (biography)

1968  

inkless collagraph on black flocked paper with collaged elements 

16 x 19 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

proof 

dated after the signature; titled and inscribed Proof in lower left 

 

black flocked paper (velvet-like surface texture on printing side) 

 

 

DOS197 

$1,800.00 

Seidler chose a blank sheet of flocked paper, perhaps the type used to line jeweler's boxes, to emboss the shapes and textures of her matrix into. She then cut out additional embossed elements from a separate sheet and collaged them to the surface. The velveteen-like paper softens the hard edges of the matrix, creating a blurred effect that reads like a bird's eye view of a sleeping city seen through a shroud of fog.