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Proof from a block of sketches

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NOTE: All Giclee prints on PAPER are printed and cut to exact size. If you would like extra paper around your print please let us know. We can add an extra 1/4" or 1/2" of paper on all sides upon request. This selection does not apply for the stretched canvas or framed products.

SKU: TRG-PRINT-UNF-METM-371543 Categories: Best Sellers, Giclee Prints Artist: Millet, Jean-Francois

Description

Faint, widely separated studies occupy the open surface of Proof from a Block of Sketches, a woodcut associated with Jean-François Millet. Fragmentary forms give the eye several small points of attention rather than one completed narrative scene. The surrounding paper becomes part of the arrangement, allowing a gathering of tentative visual ideas to retain its own spare and exploratory character.

This is a posthumous impression, so its printing followed Millet’s lifetime even though the designs belong to his work. The woodcut medium brings the studies together through marks cut into one block and transferred to paper. Their shared surface makes the movement between subjects part of the experience of looking. The image offers a concentrated encounter with several visual ideas, preserving the variety of sketching within a form that can be examined as a whole.

Read our guide to giclée prints or browse the Jean-François Millet collection.