Help With Artist On Vera Cruz Harbor Scene Etching

Google reverse image does not recognize it.
Any suggestions on the signature?
Thanks

 

Wegteuas?
Niegtleuas?

You might check artist registries for 1940s for names with We or Nie, I'd look for Calif. and Mex artists or artists working in Mexico.

It is a nice little etching. The mat is acid, and severely burned the print. Have you opened it up to see if there is any additional stamps or info inside. it needs to be rematted, at any rate. The burn marks really reduce the value of this print. While the quality is nice, it does look a bit like tourist art, and even if made by a regional artist of reknown, those burn marks will diminish it's value considerably. How do you remat it to cover the burns? You don't. How do you remove the burns? Costly restoration that may not be worth it.

I love how the blue color was applied, but I can't determine the method. Looks like a stone litho, or a unique water color technique of the artists, possibly a second etching? That may be of interest to the collector.

 

Thanks for the reply.
I refer to it as an etching because of the sharp marks on the edges that I think are left by the plate. Is that common for the stone litho? What would be a unique water color technique and second etching?
By the way, there is a signature( and a copyright symbol) in the plate but very faded. So probably there was an original watercolor the print was made after? But still, why the images are clear but the signature almost invisible?
I have not opened it yet. First was trying to see if I can ID the artist by the subject and the siggy. I am searching different variations of the name but no luck yet.

 

It is an original etching and aquatint, with a la poupée coloring.

I do not recognize the artist.

 

"there is a signature( and a copyright symbol) in the plate but very faded. So probably there was an original watercolor the print was made after? But still, why the images are clear but the signature almost invisible?"

The signature is faint because it was lightly scratched in over an aquatint ground, so it didn't print clearly.

This does not mean your print is a reproduction of a watercolor.

 

a la poupée coloring
Not familiar with that term. Doll colouring??

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_la_poupée

 

I have done A la poupée, Aquatint and water color. From the images provided, I am having a hard time discerning the technique. Usually in A La poupée some of the color ink seeps into and mixes with the line color and it is damn near impossible to fill only the lines in a plate that has used both etched lines and Aquatint, like this one would have to.

I'd want to look at those areas with a magnifying glass for tell tell signs that the line and color mixed to an extent. Of course this can be mitigated with viscosity. And the yellowed paper doesn't help.

But the coloring does have characteristics of Aquatint and I just noticed blue in the plate mark.

If it is Aquatint it's more likely that they used two plates an etching for the lines and for the color an Aquatint wiped A la poupée.

When I look at the odd clouds, they seem to be created by the rag wiping the plate rather than by intaglio. This could just be A la poupée without any aquatint.

 

Thanks -- I learned something new today!

 

Have been looking at this signature a few ways and not coming up with anything. For what it is worth, I see Meyteurs or similar. I am pretty confident that the first letter is an M. Look at the M in Mexico for comparison. Any way you can compare to the in-plate signature or the other words to identify any of the other letters through comparison?

 

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