Satellite

 

Bernard Childs

  1910 - 1985 (biography)

1963  

color intaglio 

7 1/8 x 8" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

unique trial proof 

inscribed in pencil: "Childs 63 unique trial proof "Satellite" 1/1; inscribed verso by Judith Childs: "Bernard Childs (American 1910-1985) ed. 10 imp. Childs" 

 

cream wove Arches 

unique trial proof 

artist 

JC165 

$3,500.00 

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.