21 Etchings and Poems, New York, Morris Gallery, 1960 (Boston 145)

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21 Etchings and Poems, New York, Morris Gallery, 1960 (Boston 145)

the set of twenty-one numbered etchings, title, text and justification, on wove paper, all signed in pencil except the Hayter, Phillips and Alechinsky unsigned, copy 37 of 50 (there were also 12 artist's proofs), with full margins, the Racz with some staining at the right margin edge, the Vincente with a small stain on the reverse, some plates with two small skinned spots at the reverse of the top margin corners, otherwise in very good condition, original blue linen-covered portfolio with simili Japan appliqué title (slightly worn)
all approx. S. 20 x 17in. (509 x 432mm.)the set (21)

Lot Essay

Including: Pierre Alechinsky, Poem; Fred Becker, To Yeats in Rapallo; Ben-Zion, The Faithful One; Letterio Calapai, To a Poor Old Woman; Willem de Kooning, Revenge; Peter Grippe, The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City; Salvatore Grippi, Mind; S.W. Hayter, Poem; Franz Kline, Poem; Jacques Lipchitz, Gedicht; Ezio Matinelli, The Blue Waterfall; Ben Nicholson, Tenement; I. Rice Pereira, Omega; Helen Phillips, Poem; André Racz, Aubade-Harlem; Kurt Roesch, Underworld; Attilio Salemme, Tiresias; Louis Schanker, Most Often in the Night; Karl Schrag, Fiercely, Lady, Do We Ride; Esteban Vicente, Nostalgia; and Adja Yunkers, Praise to the End!