Théodore Roussel
1847-1926 -Tate Collection
L'Agonie des fleurs (etchings) by Théodore Roussel
(еще прекрасного из серии "Умирающие цветы")
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© Trustees of the British Museum
L'Agonie des fleurs (colour version)
Etching, aquatint and soft-ground,1911-12
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Roussel was a pioneer in colour printmaking techniques. He was elected president of the newly founded ‘Society of Graver – Printers in Colour’ in 1909. He held the position until his death and exhibited his work with them regularly.
Roussel’s medium was the last phase of the artist’s printmaking in colour. It was an entirely new process of printing in water - colour, opposed to oils. The water based ink comprised pigment and rice powder. He was searching for ‘a means of printing which would enable him to do away with the crushing affect of the press, and with the yellow quality in printing oil, so as to get the greatest purity in blue tones and a quality of depth combined with a delicacy of tone’. The impressions were printed from textile plates, made from a series of master cuttings in paper, and partially applied through paper stencils. This was all done by hand without the use of a printing press or metal plates. Hausberg records only ten subjects.
Theodore Roussel has invented an altogether new process for producing colour prints, a process in which no metal plates are used, but their place taken by a series of textile surfaces which receive the colours and transfer them to paper...(подробнее здесь,по линку)© Gerrish Fine Art
'The Steamer', Gouache Print, 1922.
-from Gerrish Fine Art
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