The Black and White Robe

This image was far and away the most mysterious of early Nagels. . .

It's the ONLY black and white serigraph; and an unusual merging of Pat, his publisher - Mirage Editions, and Jeff Wasserman, the genius printer who masterfully created all of Pat's early editions.

The concept was to create a smaller version of the 'Black Robe', an eight-color hand-pulled serigraph of the identical image, that was created in an edition of 90 signed & numbered prints, and measures 27 x 42".

The 'Black and White Robe' is a little smaller:  it measures 21" x 32.25" but I think has as great an impact because of its striking simplicity.  And the embossing that Pat did is too subtle to see in photographs, but very cool in person.  He created the illusion of a traditional platemark, the indentation created in the paper when a print is put through the press, under tremendous pressure, to transfer the ink to the sheet of paper.  But in this case, the hand-made emboss mark creates a line that encloses the black ink panel that the model stands behind.

We have print number 3 of ONLY 25 signed prints.  Only 32 prints in this entire edition.  The owners love their hand-picked collection of Nagel, Hoppe and Delacroix originals and prints, but are forced to sell some of them.  THIS is a notable addition to a serious Nagel collection.

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