1980s "Maple Sugar Grove" Cuca Romley Signed and Numbered Color Etching

Description

Artist: Cuca Romley– Spanish/American (1933- )
Title: Maple Sugar Grove
Year: circa 1981
Medium: Color etching
Sight size: 24 x … more Artist: Cuca Romley– Spanish/American (1933- )
Title: Maple Sugar Grove
Year: circa 1981
Medium: Color etching
Sight size: 24 x 17.75 inches.
Sheet size: 30 x 22.5 inches. Printed on Tiepolo Fabriano paper
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: unknown. This one: 7/10 H.C.
Condition: Very good
Unframed


This exceptional print is by Cuca Romley (1933-). It is in very good, never-framed condition. The print has slight rippling on the left and right margins near the edge, far from the image.

Cuca Romley is in her eighties, and currently based in Spain after spending decades in New York City. She was trained at The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), a distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.

The artist won several noted awards for her art in her native Spain, and in Paris, France. She worked as an artist and also had a career in advertising, illustration and interior design, in Spain, France and New York. As an artist, she has had solo and group exhibitions first Paris, France, Monaco, Japan, Spain and the US.

ETCHINGS

Cuca Romley’s etchings of both famous and little places around the world are depicted with a remarkable attention to detail, a style that belies her sophisticated sense of line and color. These etchings capture a bygone era of a city in flux, and a snap shot of a classic image of a place. Each plate is etched with patience and a thoroughness reminiscence of the earlier days of engraving, in exquisite and fine detail.

Romley creates her intricate design on the etching ground that covers the copper plate. After the acid has etched the lines into the copper plate she engraves the details into the plate with a buril until the image is completed. For each individual print, a master printer must ink the plate and wipe the surface clean. The plate is placed on the bed of the press and the previously wet French Arches paper 100% cotton covering the plate, is passed through the press, and that completes the printing process.

After the printing ink has dried for a couple of days, the etching is ready for the hand coloring by the artist. There are often more than 30 colors in one of Romley’s images. Each print can take up to 6 hours to color; these colors impart a subtle transparent effect that compliments the delicacy of the line. less