Window with Flowers Mezzotint <br/> by Robert Kipniss

Artist/Designer: Robert Kipniss b. 1931, Brooklyn, New York   Title: Window with Flowers 1982 Medium: Mezzotint Dimensions: Image: 7.75" h x 7" Paper: 13" x 14" Offered unframed. (Please contact us for framing options.) Details: Trial proof printed on cream paper. Not signed on front. Final edition 120 plus 15 artist proofs.  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 must be polished mirror smooth so that no ink will be held on t