Drypoint and rocker. A standing female nude, depicted from the top of her head to her knees. She leans on her left hip, her arms clasped above her, and her head in left profile. The subject is essentially complete. There are two variant impressions of this state.
Oblique drypoint hatching has been added to the breast at left, and below the breast at right. There are two variant impressions of this state.
- Catalogue Number
- E.048
- Title and Date
- Standing nude
1991; reworked 2001
- Description of Featured Image
- A standing female nude, depicted from the top of her head to her knees. She leans on her left hip, with her arms clasped above her; her head is in left profile.
- Where Made
- Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge. Alphington, Melbourne
- Medium Category and Technique
- Intaglio Print: Drypoint and rocker on copper
- Support
- Wove paper. Identified papers: No papers identified.
- Dimensions
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Image size: 230 x 170 mm
Matrix size: 230 x 170 mm - Artist’s Record Number
- RAE.44 (1991), RAE.139 (2001)
- Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
- All impressions printed by Rick Amor. State I printed by Amor in his Dunmoochin studio, Cottles Bridge. State II printed in the Alphington studio.
- Summary Edition Information
- Two states. No edition.
- Collections
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: one state impression, numbered 1, dated 1991; two state impressions, numbered 1-1, 2-1, dated 2001.
- Comment
This drypoint was done from a life drawing that was subsequently destroyed by Amor during one of his annual cullings. A closely related, roughly hewn woodcut of the same subject was completed in 1991.
- Keywords
- Female nude, Nude
- URL
- https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/standing-nude/
Record last updated 15/02/2021