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STONE ROBERTS
LUKE AND FLOWERS
Photogravure on Magnani Pesci Paper
Signed and numbered edition of 20, 2009
Image Size:21 1/2 X 19 1/4 inches
Sheet Size: 28 3/4 X 25 1/4 inches
Brand X Projects, Inc is pleased to present LUKE AND FLOWERS, a photogravure by renowned American artist Stone Roberts. Inspired by a painting of the same title, the photogravure captures the artist's wonderful range of compositional mastery and tonal variation. Soft contrasts between dark and light are exemplified in this superbly composed and witty edition.
LUKE AND FLOWERS features Roberts' long time English Cocker Spaniel who became a regular part of Stone's work. Having accompanied Roberts to the studio regularly, Luke was often a reluctant model. However, in this composition, Luke poses gracefully as the canine version of a classical sculpture. Lapping gently from a saucer, Luke is unconcerned by the ensuing chaos! This entrancing photogravure reveals Roberts’ artistic mastery of capturing the moment perfectly.
Stone trained at Yale, The Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome. His work is collected by numerous public and private collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chase Bank Collection and The Biltmore Estate in Ashville.
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Undoubtedly one of the foremost figurative artists working today, Roberts is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan; and the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina. He has returned to his first love of drawing-this time on copperplate, and the results are truly magical.
Trained at Yale, Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and in Rome, Roberts creates work steeped in the traditions of art history, but with a look and an edge that are unmistakably contemporary. These qualities are on view in this new series of prints. By definition, etchings have both a sensual and sensitive quality, and these images do not disappoint.
The three luminous works have the subtle elegance of the masters of printmaking, from Dürer to Matisse. Each one is an intimate glimpse that forces us to look, think, and feel a bit more intensely.
A Cluster of Grapes in Folded Napkin is a master etching with tonal depth and rich burr. Huddled Pears is subtly complex with hand coloring in watercolor Figure Study (from Interior: Evening) is an exquisite etching on chine collé in which the artist explores a pose with the figure of his wife from a larger composition painted in 1998.
Pencil Signed and numbered edition of 25, Printed on Hahnemule Paper
Figure Study (from Interior: Evening)
Etching on chine collé
Image: 6 x 4 inches
Sheet: 14 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches
Cluster of Grapes in Folded Napkin
Etching
Image: 4 x 6 inches
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches
Huddled Pears
Etching with hand coloring
Image: 4 x 6 inches
Sheet: 11 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches