Robert Kipniss AVAILABLE WORKS
Throughout the month of May, CK
Contemporary is pleased to offer a unique opportunity - With every purchase of a Robert Kipniss print or painting, you will receive a complimentary book signed by the artist, complete with a personal dedication. If you take advantage of this offer, you will have a choice between Kipniss’s catalogue raisonné of intaglio prints from 1982-2004 or an autobiography entitled “A Working Artist’s Life”. If you've been considering adding one of his pieces to your collection, this month presents the perfect opportunity! Both signed books provide deeper insight into the artist’s artistic vision and career.
First state 14/50
Image size: 14 x 9.375 in
Sentinels II, 1998
Mezzotint
The White Forest, 2000 Mezzotint
Vase w/ small branches, 1999
Mezzotint
4/50
14 x 9.37 in
& landscape, 1991
Vase
Mezzotint (28/75)
7.75 x 7 in
Bare Trees (small), 1970
Hillside w/ small clearing, 2005
Mezzotint
17/60 11.5 x 9.25 in
Window w/ vase & forest, 2000
Mezzotint
Proof 3 (1/1)
19.62 x 19.37 in
birches, 2019 Drypoint etching 2/25 8.5 x 4.75 in
Three
Trees & stars, 2011
Mezzotint 5/80 11.62 x 9.25 in
Two Vases, 2004
Mezzotint
Tall trees at night, 2001
Mezzotint
2/60
19.62 x 13.5 in
Tall trees at night (Green), 2001
Mezzotint
trial proof/2
19.62 x 13.5 in
Still life w/ spoon, 1998
Mezzotint
Springfield, O., 1992
(variant) Proof 1 (1/1) 13 x 11 in
Mezzotint
15 x 19 in
Chair & leaves, 2006
Mezzotint
47/50
Fragments,
Mezzotint
Evening, 2017
Spring
Mezzotint
Evening clouds, 2021
Mezzotint
Forest Nocturne IV, 2001
Mezzotint
Passing storm, 2018
Mezzotint
4/25
9.25 x 14 in
Landscape w/ curtains & crooked tree, 2016 Mezzotint
10/15
19.5 x 19.5 in
28/50 14.5 x 19.5 in
Forest murmurs, 2010
Mezzotint
Forest interior w/ white trees, 2013
Oil on canvas
36.25 x 28.25 in
Interior with Cup, Spoon and Window, 2004 Oil on board 24 x 16 in
32 x 22 in
Landscape w/ Dark Slope, 2003
Oil on canvas
The Approach, 2007
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 in
Deluxe Oil Book, Silver Morning, 2007
Mezzotint
Image size: 6.25 x 4.5 in
Image size: 7 x 5 in
Deluxe Intaglio Book, Interior w/mountain and Nocturne w/ six trees
Mezzotint
Robert Kipniss (American, b. 1931)
Robert Kipniss is considered one of the greatest living American printmakers, with a professional career that spans seven decades and work that can be found in over 170 museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The British Museum, London; the Albertina, Vienna; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; the Royal Society of PainterPrintmakers, London; The Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Born in Brooklyn in 1931, Kipniss studied at the Art Students League in 1947, Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio from 1948-50, and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. Although he has painted in oil throughout his life, Kipniss focused on stone lithography during his early career, and has predominately worked in Mezzotint since the early 1990’s.
Mezzotint is an intaglio printmaking technique along with etching and drypoint, in which the artist begins with a rocked copper plate. If the plate were to be inked and printed at the initial stages, it would register to the paper as carbon black. To draw out the lightness in the image, the artist must carefully scrape and burnish away the copper plate’s ability to hold ink. This process is exceedingly time consuming, but results in a complete range of tonality. Kipniss, who is now 94, is considered a true master of this technique’s delicate interplay between darkness and light.
Kipniss was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, in 1998. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of American Graphic Artists and The Artists Fellowship. He has also received the Speicher-Hassam Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as Honorary Doctorates from Wittenberg University and Illinois College.
