Notre Dame by Rodney Moss

Master Printmaker Basil Hall Editions, Braidwood

Limited edition (40) of Notre Dame from Rodney Moss’ 2018 sketching series interpreting some of the most well known views in Paris. 

This etching was produced and signed on 15 April 2019, coincidently on the same day that fire devastated this glory of medieval architecture and the soul of Paris.  The etching block has now been destroyed, ensuring that no further prints can be taken.

Profits from the sale of this etching will be donated to the Notre Dame Cathedral restoration project. 

The sketches that are the subject of these etchings were all done by Rodney Moss during a busy and productive visit to Paris in May 2018.  Rodney was fascinated to find and re-interpret the locations selected by the famous Australian Artist Brett Whiteley in 1960, when in Paris on an Artist in Residence Scholarship.  Many of Whiteley’s original sketches are now held in the Art Gallery of NSW, in Sydney, and are regarded as national treasures.

Rodney Moss a successful architect and retired director of Cox Architecture is now perusing an art practice and has long been drawn by the energy in Whiteley’s rapid impressions of Paris.  Rodney has captured this same energy with his own keenly observed, artistic eye. 

Artist:  Rodney Moss (Canberra)

Title:  Notre Dame

Medium:  Etching

Edition Size:  40

Image Size:  29.5mm x 21mm

Paper Size:  43mm x 35.5mm

Master Printmaker:  Basil Hall Editions, Braidwood, NSW (Print No. 2019/37)

Paper:  Hahnemuhle, 300 gsa

Ink:  Charbonnel, purchased from a store on the Left Bank in Paris, near Notre Dame

Plate details:  Zinc plate

Colours used:  Transparent Black

Framed Edition:  Jarrah Frame    Museum quality Archival Perspex