DAVID SILVERBERG Noah – Lascaux Etching

Updated November 7, 2026

Artist: David Silverberg, RCA (Canadian, b. 1936) Title: Noah – Lascaux Medium: Colour etching on paper Edition: 3/25, pencil numbered lower left Title: Pencil titled “Noah Lascaux” lower centre Signature: Pencil signed “D. Silverberg” lower right Sight: 13 × 17.5 in. Frame: 22.5 × 25.5 in. Presentation: Matted and framed under glass in a dark wood frame. striking original colour etching by noted Canadian printmaker David Silverberg. The composition combines a large human profile with overlapping animal forms, including cattle and an antlered animal, rendered in rich black and sepia tones. The imagery and title Noah – Lascaux evoke ancient cave imagery and the biblical Noah narrative. Artist Biography Born in Montreal in 1936, David Silverberg studied with Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts before attending McGill University. He subsequently trained in Paris in etching and engraving with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, an internationally important experimental printmaking workshop. Silverberg developed a long career devoted particularly to intaglio and colour printmaking. His prints characteristically combine finely worked etched lines with imaginative figurative, animal and narrative imagery—qualities strongly represented in Noah – Lascaux.

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