Edition impression (fifth edition, 2020) of the etching initially titled Road (retitled Winter in 2009, retitled The Road in 2018, retitled The Road II in 2018, retitled Winter II in 2020)

Print

Catalogue Number

E.155.4

Title and Date

Winter II

2020; reworked and retitled 2009 (as Winter), reworked and retitled 2018 (as The Road), reworked and retitled 2018 (as The Road II), reworked and retitled 2020 (as Winter II)

Initial Title

Road

Subsequent Title Comment

This etching went through eight states before being editioned for the first time, in 2008, as Road. Its reworking in two further states in the following year saw the addition of dark clouds, rain and a bare tree – alterations that clearly gave the image a seasonal character. In its ninth state, the work was retitled Winter, and after being taken through a tenth and final state it was printed in a second edition. In 2018 Amor revisited this plate, and this state was retitled The Road, turning the image towards to its initial title (Road, 2008). In The Road, Amor has amended the supporting structures for the roadway, removing one of the three piers. This amendment gives the structure a simpler profile and opens up the space underneath the roadway. Four states were made as Road, and the fourth and final state was printed in a third edition. Soon after Amor completed the edition for The Road, the artist returned to the plate and the resulting states were retitled The Road II. Amor significantly burnished the plate, reducing the appearance of shadows across the image. After the 18^th state, before the edition impression, Amor made a large adjustment, burnishing the supportive buttress on the second, central pier. While it had previously been a long, curving form, it was transformed into a simple, neat triangular shape. Throughout four additional states of The Road II, and especially in this final amendment, Amor burnished and redrew his plate in order to sharpen and simplify the geometry of the concrete roadway and its supports. E.155.4 is a reworking of a plate that has been through four preview editions, beginning with Road in 2008. Amor returned to this plate two years after The Road II in 2020, and the work’s nineteenth state was retitled Winter II, reflecting the title of an earlier version of the print (Winter, 2009). The major change in this version is the removal of two supporting buttresses on each of the piers. This continues Amor’s amendments to The Road II, which sought to simplify the geometry of the roadway structure. In this version the roadway piers are now plain, rectangular forms, unsupported by additional buttresses. Similar to when the earlier version The Road (2008) was amended to Winter (2009), Amor again darkened the clouds and deepened shadows, particular beneath the roadway, and over the entire rocky bank in the foreground. For a full account of this work (including a comprehensive Comment, and information on all states), please click on the hyperlink above, under ‘Initial Title’.

Record last updated 22/10/2024