Lightbeam

Artist: b'Mortensen, Kevin.' | Title: b'Lightbeam' | Date: 2000 | Technique: b'etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate' | Copyright: b'\xc2\xa9 Kevin Mortensen'
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Primary Artist

Kevin Mortensen (1939–2023)

Title

Lightbeam

Date made

2000

Place made

Australia, Australia, Victoria, Melbourne, Viridian Press, 11 Dickens Road, Olinda View on map Close map

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Category

Print

Print type

intaglio

Technique

etching, printed in black ink, from one copper plate

Matrix size

14.6 x 19.8 cm (plate-mark)

Support

wove paper

Support size

28.6 x 38.0 cm (sheet)

State

published state

Impression

printer's proof

Edition information

edition of 10, incomplete as of July 2008; plus 1 right-to-print proof, 2 artist's proofs, 2 printer's proofs

Inscriptions or device by artist or designated agent

Signed and dated lower right below plate-mark in black pencil, 'K.C. MORTENSEN 2000'. Titled lower centre below plate-mark in black pencil, 'Lightbeam'. Inscribed with edition details lower left below plate-mark in black pencil, 'PP'.

Inscriptions or device by others involved in the works production

Print workshop blindstamp lower right corner, 'VP' [within square].

Collection

National Gallery of Australia

IRN

172713

Accession number

2007.1508

Accession method

Purchase

Meeting

Meeting 2, 2007/2008 (2007-10-30)

Provenance

Purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, from John Loane, printer and Director of Viridian Press, Canberra, 2007.

Credit line

Gordon Darling Australia Pacific Print Fund, celebrating the National Gallery of Australia’s 25th anniversary, 2007

Copyright

© Kevin Mortensen

Creators

VIRIDIAN PRESS | (1988–) Australian | Organisation | print workshop

Mortensen, Kevin. | (1939–2023) Australian | Male | artist

LOANE, John | (1950–) Australian | Male | printer

Last Updated

04 Jan 2013