Etching on Arches paper, Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization III from the Atelier 17 series, 1960s

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Etching on Arches paper, Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization III from the Atelier 17 series, 1960s

Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization III from the Atelier 17 series
Etching on Arches paper
Number 11/30
The work bears the artist’s signature, title and individual number (in pencil)
Sheet dimensions 50/59
The work is unframed

Lawrence Heyman was born in 1932. He is a contemporary American painter and printmaker. Heyman earned a bachelor’s degree from the Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University. In 1960, he went to Paris to study printmaking techniques at Atelier 17, where he exhibited prints and paintings for five years.
When he returned to the United States, he settled in New York and specialised in scenes of Manhattan and its surroundings. The artist later moved to Providence, Rhode Island. Today, Lawrence Heyman’s art is held in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Museum of the City in New York.

The work was made on Arches paper and dates from the 1960s. This watercolour paper is made exclusively using traditional methods on cylinder presses, giving it a regular texture. The cotton fibres are evenly distributed, making the structure of the paper more stable and resistant to deformation. It is coated with a layer of natural gelatine, allowing it to be stretched without the risk of tearing. It also retains the natural intensity and luminosity of colours, except for paints with a natural tendency to penetrate the structure of the paper.

The work is in original vintage condition.