
Collection Online as of May 30, 2023
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(French, born Morocco, 1948-)
printer
Etching and aquatint from the First Suite of ten prints on blue-toned laid paper
Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.56.7
Catalogue raisonné: FF 163
Edition: First suite, XXV/XXV
Impression: XXV
not on view
Erik Desmazières’ etchings and aquatints represent libraries, city views, cabinets of wonder, and other spaces rich with meaning, history, and content, both real and imagined. Through virtuoso draftsmanship and his consummate command of the technical aspects of etching, Desmazières renders his architectural spaces and cityscapes with hardened reality, simultaneously imbuing them with an uncanny sense of the fantastic and the surreal.