Far Fields II Lithograph <br/> by Robert Kipniss

Artist/Designer: Robert Kipniss b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York   Title: Far Fields II, 1979 Medium: Color lithograph Dimensions: Image: 13.75" h x 11.75" Paper: 19.25" x 16.5" Offered unframed. (Please contact us for framing options.) Publisher: Merrill Chase Galleries Details: Hand-signed in pencil Kipniss on right side under image, and numbered artist proof XXIV/XXV on left side under image. Color edition of 150, with 25 artist proofs and an edition of 20 in black and white. Notes from the Archive: Lithography is as much an art as a craft. Robert Kipniss uses lithography in its simplest form, as it originated in 1798. He draws directly on the Bavarian limestone with a type of grease crayon, the image is then etched by the lithographer and hand cranked through a cast iron press for each color. Once the edition is complete the drawing is ground off the stone and reused. Kipniss’s images are of imagined landscapes and interiors with a universal quality: at once subtle and in