Les Amants

 

Gail Singer

  1924 - 1985 (biography)

1959  

color intaglio 

10 7/8 x 15 3/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

33 of 45  

pencil titled in lower center, dated after signature and editioned in lower left 

 

antique-white BFK Rives watermarked wove 

published 

artist 

20359 

$800.00 

Les Amants (The Lovers) exemplifies Gail Singer's dexterity within the intaglio medium, using textures and automatic line to portray an image of vibrant energy emerging from a velvety darkness. Singer worked at Atelier 17 in 1955 after Stanley William Hayter had reopened the popular experimental studio in Paris following the war. Her work combined the techniques of etching, aquatint, open bite, and viscosity. She also worked in relief, printing the surface of her matrix be it a metal plate, wood block, or linoleum block.