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Conquistador Cielo

Name: Conquistador Cielo | Gatja Helgart Rothe
Brand: RoGallery
SKU: 71976

Gatja Helgart Rothe

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German (1935–2008)

Date: circa 1990
Mezzotint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 138/150
Frame Size: 41 x 46 in. (104.14 x 116.84 cm)

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about Conquistador Cielo

This mezzotint by Gatja Helgart Rothe is a premier example of the artist's skillful application of the medium and ability to render her subjects with clarity and precision.

Galloping leftward, the horses of varying colors run alongside eachother and neigh loudly as though they are escaping a hunter or other predator.

About The Artist: Gatja Helgart Rothe

G.H. Rothe is renowned as master of the mezzotint and as one of the world's greatest living artists. She combines technical mastery with inspired imagination. She was born in 1935 in Beuthen, Germany (ceded to Poland in 1945) and her studies in art history, human anatomy, goldsmithing and extensive drawing culminated in her discovery of the mezzotint technique. Impelled to revive this most difficult technique of printmaking led to an invention...

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About The Medium: Mezzotint

A printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.

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