NU D Sensual Nude Woman Mikio Watanabe Art Mezzotint Start Price USD 375.00 Current Price USD 375.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, December 11, 2008 End Time Thursday, December 11, 2008 Location Multiple Sellers in different locations, please check the description of each item. See more about 'NU D Sensual Nude Woman Mikio Watanabe Art Mezzotint' Description UniversalLive Bidding This auction supports UniversalLive bidding technology which allows you to bid on this item up to the last two minutes of the item being auctioned (this is not possible on eBay if the auction has already begun). You can also bid using UniversalLive web-based bidding system (no Java and no installation required) or software-based bidding system (you can bid on multiple auctions at the same time). The standard eBay Java bidding console is also available. Click the BID NOW button to try UniversalLive's new bidding platform. Item Description CLICK HERE TO MAKE PAYMENT WHEN THE AUCTION ENDS!!!PRESENTS FEATURED SELLERItem Location: Northbrook, IL 60062United StatesNU D Sensual Nude Woman Mikio Watanabe Art MezzotintDescription"I am absolutely convinced that at the heart of all things existing in this world, there is something very simple and pure which goes beyond the complexity of appearances," says the artist Mikio Watanabe. This conviction, perhaps, is what makes Watanabe's mezzotints of the naked female form so mesmerizing: Title: "Nu D" ("Nude D") 1988 Mezzotint on Rives Numbered from a limited edition of 75, plus XV Roman Signed in pencil in the margin LR Sheet: 11 × 15 Image: 4¾ × 5½ Hinge residue top edge verso; slight creasing in the margins L Otherwise very good - excellent condition Certificate of AuthenticityWatanabe creates a mezzotint by repeatedly pressing a curved, serrated mezzotint rocker over the surface of a copper plate until has received many thousands of tiny indentations from this tool. This procedure is extremely time-consuming — most of the plates take 70 - 80 hours to produce — but plates made this way yield velvety blacks that can be obtained no other way. After the entire surface of the plate has been roughened, scraper and burnishers are used to raise tones of gray and white."During the slow process of engraving, as I scrape the burrs that I have incised on the copper plate and then polish it, the sensitivity which lies inside me can be revealed. Giving shape and light to what was before absolute darkness, I try to feel this universe of purity which exists deep inside the human body," says the artist. Mikio Watanabe (Japan, b. 1954) completed his studies in Tokyo in 1977 and settled in Paris, where he learned engraving techniques at the Atelier 17. Since 1981, Mikio Watanabe has focused on mezzotint and his works can be found in many public collections including Bibliotheque National in Paris, the Central Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur and the New Orleans Museum of Art.For International shipping please request a SHIPPING QUOTEShipping and handling for this item is $10.75 plus additional insurance cost. 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