Drypoint. Depiction of the buttocks, genitals and thighs of a woman bending forward with legs spread apart. The outer contour of the thighs is incomplete and the background has been left blank.
The arc of the outline of the buttocks and thighs has been completed and the background has been darkened with irregular drypoint hatching. An area of oblique parallel hatching has been added to the inner right thigh.
- Catalogue Number
- E.049
- Title and Date
- Backside
1991; reworked 1994
- Description of Featured Image
- Depiction of the buttocks, genitals and thighs of a woman bending forward with legs spread apart.
- Where Made
- Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge. Alphington, Melbourne
- Medium Category and Technique
- Intaglio Print: Drypoint on copper
- Support
- Wove paper. Identified papers: No papers identified.
- Dimensions
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Image size: 86 x 138 mm
Matrix size: 86 x 138 mm - Artist’s Record Number
- RAE.45 (1991)
- Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
- All impressions printed by Rick Amor. States I and II printed by Amor in his Dunmoochin studio, Cottles Bridge. State III printed in the Alphington studio.
- Summary Edition Information
- Three states. No edition.
- Collections
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: one state impression, numbered 1, dated 1991; AP II, dated 1994.
- Comment
E.049 is one of several intaglio prints depicting erotic subjects that were made by Amor in the 1990s. This work is based on a pencil drawing, dated 17 December 1989, in the artist’s 1989–91 sketchbook.
- Keywords
- Erotic subject
- URL
- https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/backside/
Record last updated 15/02/2021