Igitur-5
1995
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softground etching and aquatint in black and brown on Rives wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.62 × 17.78 cm (6 15/16 × 7 in.) sheet: 24.45 × 23.97 cm (9 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.3107.5
Art Historical Context
Edda Renouf's *Igitur-5* (1995) is a delicate intaglio print from a series by Stéphane Mallarmé's existential prose poem *Igit*, which probes themes of being, absence, and introspection. Renouf, an American artist known for her minimalist, often transforms subtle marks and erasures into meditative surfaces, evoking quiet contemplation. This work, part of a portfolio, exemplifies her late-20th-century exploration of texture and tonality on paper. Created using softground etching and aquatint in black and brown inks on fine Rives wove paper, the piece measures a intimate plate size of 17.62 × 1...
About the Artist
Edda Renouf
Edda Renouf was born in Mexico City in 1943 to an artistic family — her father, Edward Renouf, was himself a painter. She moved to the United States in 1957 and began her formal training at Sarah Lawrence College in 1961, later earning her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, where she studied under the painter Richard Pousette-Dart. A year spent at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Mu...