Common Ringed Plover

Charles Donker

1973 · Etching and aquatint; second state of two; 24/50 · Drawings and Prints

Charles Donker is one of the foremost contemporary Dutch printmakers. He is a member of a group called De Luis (The Louse), a group of graphic artists who since the 60s have been making works in a surrealist or heightened realist idiom. He has long been fascinated by the natural world. He rendered this plover in a fantastic and playful landscape whose foliage seems to derive from the work of earlier artists such as Rodolphe Bresdin and Odilon Redon. The background is composed of rows of small dots.

Artist

Charles Donker

Date

1973

Medium

Etching and aquatint; second state of two; 24/50

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Ann Reimus, in honor of Dorothy Shannon and the Chiotakis family, 2018