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YEATS, William Butler. Poems. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990.
4o. 6 ETCHINGS BY RICHARD DIEBENKORN. Original red-leather-backed boards; publisher's slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 162 of 400 copies signed by Diebenkorn from an edition of 426. "The poetry of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) burst the boundaries of its native Ireland to become part of world culture. Helen Vendler, one of the foremost authorities on modern poetry and a University Professor at Harvard, selected for the Arion Press 145 poems and provided an introductory essay for the book. Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93), internationally recognized as one of America's leading artists, took the Yeatsian theme of an empty coat on a hanger to produce a series of prints transforming the garment from a representational frock-coat into an abstracted suit-bag. The sixth etching is a double map of Ireland, indicative of that divided country" (Arion Press catalogue).
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LIMITED EDITION, number 162 of 400 copies signed by Diebenkorn from an edition of 426. "The poetry of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) burst the boundaries of its native Ireland to become part of world culture. Helen Vendler, one of the foremost authorities on modern poetry and a University Professor at Harvard, selected for the Arion Press 145 poems and provided an introductory essay for the book. Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93), internationally recognized as one of America's leading artists, took the Yeatsian theme of an empty coat on a hanger to produce a series of prints transforming the garment from a representational frock-coat into an abstracted suit-bag. The sixth etching is a double map of Ireland, indicative of that divided country" (Arion Press catalogue).
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