Apr 15 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2700 -

Sale 2700 - Lot 9

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
EDNA BOIES HOPKINS (1872 - 1937)
Sunflowers (Purple Sunflower).

Color woodcut, circa 1915-16. 228x201 mm; 9x8 inches, wide margins. Signed and inscribed "No. 5" in pencil, lower margin. Vasseur 66.
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The unique inking method of white line woodcuts, more akin to painting, offers the opportunity for variation within an edition. According to Vasseur "The fact that each color in her prints had to be applied and transferred individually by hand may well have encouraged Hopkins to vary the colors she used. Indeed, one author has suggested that Hopkins's prints should more accurately be considered monoprints. Although most printmakers and scholars probably would not agree with this proposition, it is worth noting, because sometimes the colors of like images vary radically. Such color variations are by no means rare in Hopkins oeuvre; in fact, they are to be expected."

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