Willem de Kooning - WILLEM de KOONING-Poems-Frank O'Hara-Ode to Willem de Kooning-17 Lithographs - Verkocht

Dimensions : black fabric covered and lined case 60 x 48 x 5 cm
Dimensions : black Nigerian goatskin book 56 x 45,5 x 3,5 cm
Dimensions : lithographs hand­-made ochre‑tinted Kitakata paper. Each print was torn by hand 55 x 43,5 cm

Condition: Lined cover case with minor damages.The book and Lithographs in good condition.

The Museum of Modern Art honored Frank O’Hara with a memorial edition of his poetry illustrated by artists who knew and loved him—foremost among them, William de Kooning. De Kooning made his drawings on mylar which he then presented to the Museum.
A quarter of a century later, the mylar drawings were transferred to lithographic plates and printed under the supervision of the artist and the Museum of Modern Art solely in order to illustrate the Club’s edition of those O’Hara poems that had so moved de Kooning.
Seventeen of de Kooning’s eighteen charcoal drawings are reproduced here for the first time as originally intended‑-with their subtle strokes and wide tonal range. The thir-teen poems begin with O’Hara’s “Ode to Willem de Kooning.”  O’Hara dashed off his poems at his office, on the street, at lunch-time.

    One Volume
    Seventeen lithographs by Willem de Kooning
    Edition limited to five hundred fifty numbered copies, this is number 174


De Kooning’s drawings were transferred from their original mylar sheets to lithographic plates and printed on hand­-made ochre‑tinted Kitakata paper. Each print was torn by hand and pressed into the book’s pages by the intaglio method. Bound in black Nigerian goatskin, the book is set in a black fabric covered and lined case. 1988.


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