Pauline-Elfriede Leps-Estam 1983 Vintage Pencil Signed Art Etching Print Estonia
Pauline-Elfriede Leps-Estam 1983 Vintage Pencil Signed Art Etching Print Estonia
P.E. Leps-Estam worked as a singing and music teacher in Pärnu Estonia until WWII. She went to Germany as a war refugee in 1944, and from there to the United States in 1949. She studied printmaking from 1968 to 1975 at the Art Institute of Chicago, and from 1975 to 1980 at Santa Monica College in California. This item for sale was dated 1983.
Her first drawings appeared in 1930 in the magazine Olion. She depicted natural scenes and symbolist compositions in free graphics of a romantic nature.
After the restoration of Estonian independence, over 300 graphic works and twenty book illustrations were sent to the Pärnu Museum in Estonia together with the works of her husband Erich Leps, as well as works by her sister, Ida Emilie Adamson.
This art is an Engraving or more commonly referred to as an Etching. The technique requires the image to be “etched” into a plate of a hard surface by a tool called a burin. Ink is then rubbed all over the plate and the excess removed leaving ink in the etched lines. Good quality paper is needed which is dampened slightly. The plate and the paper is then put under a press leaving the image on the paper. Engraving is quite a time-consuming exercise as each print has to be individually done by hand, and then hand colored too!
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