serigraph

noun

seri·graph ˈser-ə-ˌgraf

: an original silk-screen color print

serigrapher

sə-ˈri-grə-fər

noun

serigraphy

sə-ˈri-grə-fē

noun

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She was drawn to the bold graphics of Pop Art, making serigraphs so that her work would be affordable. — Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025 Live and silent auctions, including a generous donation from The Niki Charitable Art Foundation, the crown of this event, an original Niki de Saint Phalle serigraph. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024 The presentation features more than 40 paintings and 10 serigraphs in her distinct abstract style, but also a variety of earlier landscape watercolors, sumi ink drawings, figurative paintings, ephemera, and formative works from as early as 1938. — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 The prints are listed primarily as serigraph, also known as silk-screen, or relief, which includes woodcut and linocut. — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023 See All Example Sentences for serigraph

Word History

Etymology

Latin sericum silk + Greek graphein to write, draw — more at carve

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1940, in the meaning defined above

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