Kolliker "Casa del Sol" Signed Sepia Etching, No. 8/100 View Watchlist >
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Kolliker "Casa del Sol" Signed Sepia Etching, No. 8/100
An intaglio etching with aquatint tone by William Augustin Kolliker (Bern, Switzerland, 1905 – El Paso, Texas, 1995), printed in sepia/sanguine ink on cream wove paper. The composition centers on an adobe compound shaded by a large cottonwood or elm, a dirt road winding toward it, and a lone female figure pausing in the foreground — a vernacular Borderlands subject drawn directly from the El Paso–Juárez–Las Cruces corridor. The plate carries Kolliker's monogram "K" lower left; the title "Casa del Sol" and edition number 100/8 are inscribed in pencil in the lower-left margin, and the sheet is pencil-signed "Kolliker" lower right.
Kolliker relocated to El Paso around 1955 and became one of the city's foremost Borderlands printmakers and painters, his etchings published by Copperstone Press, El Paso, with work held in the El Paso Museum of Art and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. The sepia/aquatint treatment is atypical and visually distinctive against his more common black impressions, and the adobe subject ties directly to the vernacular architecture of Southern New Mexico and the El Paso borderland. Presented under UV glass with a cream mat in a beveled wood frame.
CONDITION
Very Good. No remarkable damage; sepia ink and aquatint tone remain clean and well-defined. Pencil title, edition notation, and signature are legible in the margins.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Medium: Intaglio etching with aquatint, sepia/sanguine ink on cream wove paper
- Edition: 100/8
- Visible Image: 8.5" × 9"
- Framed Overall: 12.75" × 14.5" × 1.5"
- Frame: Beveled wood, cream mat, UV glass
- Publisher: Copperstone Press, El Paso
