Help identify Pencil Portrait on canvas

October 18th, 2009, 11:55 AM

can anyone tell me what this is and who the artist is ???

John · October 18th, 2009, 02:03 PM

Great drawing, if that's what it is. The circles are possibly for working out the proportions of the portrait.

The writing might be of interest, but the picture isn't clear enough for me to make anything out of it. A big, crisp picture would be great.

I don't know how that text ended up printed on the canvas, but strangely enough it's a passage from the Kama Sutra.

Hercules Brabazon · 06:20 PM

What I can make out are the words "monotype 1/1"
For more on the process see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotyping
In other words it's a unique print. In this example the picture seems to have been created by printing various images from various sources onto the printing plate (how I don't know) then reprinting them all together from that plate onto the canvas.

October 18th, 2009, 04:14 PM	#3
Hercules Brabazon Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 118	What I can make out are the words "monotype 1/1" For more on the process see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotyping In other words it's a unique print. In this example the picture seems to have been created by printing various images from various sources onto the printing plate (how I don't know) then reprinting them all together from that plate onto the canvas. Last edited by Hercules Brabazon : October 18th, 2009 at 06:20 PM.

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October 18th, 2009, 02:03 PM	#2
John John Malyon, host Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,401	Great drawing, if that's what it is. The circles are possibly for working out the proportions of the portrait. The writing might be of interest, but the picture isn't clear enough for me to make anything out of it. A big, crisp picture would be great. I don't know how that text ended up printed on the canvas, but strangely enough it's a passage from the Kama Sutra.