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G. H. Rothe, Colts, 143/150 signed print, 36"x 24", framed
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This item SOLD at 2014 May 10 @ 12:12UTC-6 : CST/MDT
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G. H. Rothe, Colts, 143/150 Very rare mezzotint, signed by artist, 36"x 24", framed. Very, very collectible piece.
German artist G. H. Rothe. 1935-2007. Born as the daughter of a master goldsmith, G.H. Rothe grew up at Wiedenbrück a small town in the heart of Germany. Her first training was of a technical kind consisting of the drawing and goldsmithery practiced in her family. Shortly after finishing her studies of painting and art history she was awarded with the Villa-Romana-Prize which enabled her to live and work in Florence, Italy for a year. Her study trips included Paris, London, Vienna, Moscow, Madrid and Uruguay before she settled first in New York and later in Carmel, California. Museums all over the world appreciate her work. Rothe masters nearly all painting techniques but for the most suitable form of expression her choice is the technique of the mezzotint which is centuries old, skillfull and rarely used.
Making a mezzotint needs the same initial material as the copperplate print or the etching, nevertheless it is produced in a completely contradictable way. The copperplate, the subsequent bearer of the motives, is untreated and smooth for prints, etching and graphic arts. An imprint would leave the paper as white as an unexposed photo. In contrast of this the copperplate of the growing, developing mezzotint is evenly roughened by special tools in a velvety way so that the print of such a plate would result in evenly blackened paper. Accordingly, the motive of the mezzotint grows by the artist´s scraping, smoothening, engraving, rocking and deepening the copperplate. This unparalleled technique grants the possibility of sensitively shading the colors from flowing flat bright tones to dark ones as well as precise lines and raising contours. She also went a step further by bringing the traditional black and white technique into the full spectrum of colours.
The plate is coated with colors and a mixture of them by using brushes, tulles and vigorously and carefully rubbing them, handwiping one color into the other. They are then transferred onto the handmade paper. The plate serves the artist as her canvas, a work lasting for hours and hours to achieve a perfect balance of color and tone, which must occur anew for each printing process. By this, each print of an edition has the originality of a unique one.
With taking the linseed oiled dilution of colors, G.H. Rothe has succeeded in creating an artistic expression which equals that of a painting. Depending on it‘s size, the completition of such a plate will take weeks and most often months to perfection. The filigree structures on the surface of the relativly soft copperplate permits only a certain number of print proceedings and consequently each edition remains limited to 150-200 prints.
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