Summer's Eve Mezzotint <br/>by Robert Kipniss

Artist/Designer: Robert Kipniss b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York   Title: Summer's Eve 1983/84 Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: Image: 7.25" h x 7.75" Paper: 11.25" x 13" Offered unframed. (Please contact us for framing options.) Details: Edition of 120 numbered prints and 15 artist proofs. This example numbered 6/120 on left under image and hand-signed Kipniss in pencil on right under image.  Notes from the Archive: Robert Kipniss has his own approach to creating a mezzotint print. As described in the book, Robert Kipniss Intaglios 1982-2004, a copper plate is prepared usually by a mechanical rocker creating hundreds of evenly placed rough points in the surface of the metal. Next different kinds of steel burnishers are used to polish the rough copper surface. Polishing lessens the amount of ink the plate will retain and allows the artist to achieve a wide and subtle range of tonal effects, hence the name mezzotint, meaning middle tones. To get pure white in an area, the surface m