Description

Collagraph on paper. Plate 8 x 6 inches, sheet 12½ x 10 inches. Fine.

An unusual unsigned, unnumbered example of a print of which 50 copies were numbered and signed by Edward Gorey. In his blog Goreyana, Edward Gorey collector and scholar Irwin Terry has described the piece as “one of Edward Gorey's most successful prints.” “To create this piece," Terry writes, “Mr. Gorey wholeheartedly embraced the medium of printmaking and produced a striking image which could only be created through the printmaking process. … With his use of shadow and light, Mr. Gorey conveys menace, darkness, and despair more convincingly than he could have in his standard cross hatched drawing style. In person, this print has a beautiful, almost three dimensional, inky black surface. This Night Creature does not have good intentions" (www.goreyana.com, October 25, 2015).

Fine Print

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