I.a. 1st state of 2
II. 2nd and final state (Featured Image)
E.143 Jan in Venice 2007
I.a. 1st state of 2
Drypoint. A profile portrait of the artist Jan Senbergs facing right, showing the head and shoulder. Senbergs is dressed in a striped shirt. In the right background is a summary depiction of a Venetian church. The subject is largely complete. There are two variant impressions of this state.
II. 2nd and final state (Featured Image)
The join of the lips has been engraved upwards to suggest a wry smile.
Impression on wove paper, printed by Martin King at the Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice. Inscribed in pencil, below the plate mark: lower left: ‘1-2’; lower centre: ‘Jan in Venice’; lower right: signed and dated ‘R Amor 07’.
Drypoint. A profile portrait of the artist Jan Senbergs facing right, showing the head and shoulder. Senbergs is dressed in a striped shirt. In the right background is a summary depiction of a Venetian church. The subject is largely complete. There are two variant impressions of this state.
The join of the lips has been engraved upwards to suggest a wry smile.
- Catalogue Number
- E.143
- Title and Date
- Jan in Venice 2007
- Description of Featured Image
- A profile portrait of the artist Jan Senbergs facing right, showing the head and shoulder. Senbergs is dressed in a striped shirt. In the right background is a summary depiction of a Venetian church.
- Series/Book Title
- Venice Series
- Series/Illustration Number
- No. 6
- Where Made
- Venice
- Medium Category and Technique
- Intaglio Print: Drypoint on copper
- Support
- Wove paper. Identified papers: No papers identified.
- Dimensions
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Image size: 258 x 177 mm
Matrix size: 260 x 180 mm - Artist’s Record Number
- RAE.170
- Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
- All impressions printed by Martin King at the Venice Printmaking Studio, Venice.
- Summary Edition Information
- Two states. No edition.
- Collections
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: three state impressions, numbered 1-1, 2-1, 1-2.
- Series
- Venice Series: Click for a full account of the Venice Series (cat. nos E.138–E.150).
- Comment
The painter and printmaker Jan Senbergs (b. Latvia 1939; arr. Australia 1950) is a friend of Amor’s, and one of the four artists who worked on the Venice Printmaking Project.
This portrait was scored directly onto the plate from life; it was never editioned, because Amor considered it too slight. The sketchy depiction of the baroque church in the background of the print is not based on a real view but is a copy of a detail in one of Senbergs’s drawings made in Venice.
E.143 is one of two portraits that Amor made of his friend in Venice, the other being a pencil sketch in the large Venice Sketchbook; this drawing, dated 13 June 2007, depicts Senbergs working on an etching.
In 2013 Amor painted an oil portrait of Jan Senbergs.
- Keywords
- Jan Senbergs, Venice
- URL
- https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/jan-in-venice/
Record last updated 17/02/2021