Robert Kipniss
Birches
1998.
10 1/2 x 8 inches (267 x 203 mm)
Pencil on paper.
2009.421
Gift of Ely Bock.
© Robert Kipniss
Notes
Although he is also a painter, Kipniss is perhaps best known as a printmaker, whose mezzotints in particular have a characteristic sharpness and intensity. His drawings are rendered in the same exacting style. Kipniss's imagery is restricted to the exploration of woods and solitary trees, houses and yards, interiors and windows, chairs and vases. "Birches" was drawn from the artist's imagination and not from direct observation. It is an autonomous work as well as a study for an oil painting.
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Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Verso: titled in pencil.
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Century Drawings
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