Item #CL192-9 Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints. James Cant, Aust.
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints
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Six (6) Signed Artist’s Prints

1948. Portfolio of six cliché verre prints, each with title in image lower left, editioned 43/150 and signed in pencil lower right, 20.2 x 25.3cm to 27 x 25.4cm (images); 36.6 x 32cm (portfolio). Minor creases and slight foxing to edge of margins; stains, discolouration and scuffing to portfolio.

Print titles are (1) The Fish; (2) The Reptile; (3) The Bird; (4) The Struggle for Life; (5) The Lust for Power; and (6) Adam, Eve and Cain. Held in AGNSW; NGA.

This is the first portfolio of cliché-verre prints produced in Australia prior to the 1950s.

A cliché-verre, also called glass print, is made by “placing photographic paper beneath a glass plate on which a design has been scratched through a coating of an opaque substance and then exposing it to light. The fluid lines possible with cliché-verre prints are reminiscent of etched lines.” Ref: Britannica.

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Item #CL192-9

Price (AUD): $5,500.00  other currencies

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