Avati, Mario. Boiled Egg, 1978. color mezzotint, Platemark: 27.5 x 34 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.). Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt, 2018.64. Copyrighted.

Boiled Egg

1978

Mario Avati

Mario Avati (French, 1921–2009)

Prints

Boiled Egg, 1978. Mario Avati (French, 1921–2009). Color mezzotint; platemark: 27.5 x 34 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt 2018.64 As a master of mezzotint—a type of intaglio printmaking which works from dark to light by scraping down a roughened metal plate—Mario Avati’s imagery often gives the sense of objects or animals emerging into the light from dark shadow. Rendered with an emphasis on shape and form, and with child-like sincerity, this still life is subtly colored and suggests that color exists only where there is light.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Avati, Mario
Classification: Print
Formatted Medium: color mezzotint
Medium: color, mezzotint
Dimensions: Platemark: 27.5 x 34 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: In colored pencil, below image, left: Essai 7/11 L’OEUF A LA COQUE Inscription: center: AVATI Inscription: lower right: 78
Departments: Prints
Accession Number: 2018.64
Credit Line: Gift of Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt
Rights Statement: Copyrighted