Les Mandarins

 

Bernard Childs

  1910 - 1985 (biography)

1957  

engraving with power tools printed in color 

8 3/4 x 12" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

8/10, epreuve d'artiste 

titled, lower right; dated after signature 

 

cream Arches wove 

published 

artist 

JC151 

$1,600.00 

In the 1950s he developed an abstract picture language, in which he worked with archetypical signs and symbols and with the methods of surrealistic automatism. Since 1955 he also attended to printed graphics, which accompanied his painting. Childs used electrically powered tools to work on his plates. This way he lent velvet-like structures and a vivid, skilful line direction to his prints. In 1959 Childs began to paint portraits, which were stylistically and intentionally formed in an expressionistic way and which he regarded as an antipol to his abstract works.