The Pool of Tears
Vera Berdich
1962
- Medium
- Photo-etching, aquatint, mezzotint, scraping, roulette, drypoint and burnishing in green-black on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 30.4 × 47.2 cm (12 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 63.3 cm (17 1/2 × 24 15/16 in.)
- Genre
- photoetching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
photoetchingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
For the fifth state of The Pool of Tears, Vera Berdich used drypoint and mezzotint to further articulate the head of the girl. She also enhanced the borders with roulette, mezzotint, and burnishing and printed the proof in green-black ink.
