Fourteen Etchings

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TERRY WINTERS (B. 1949)
Fourteen Etchings
the complete set of fourteen etchings with aquatint (one in colors), on Torinoko Gampi collé and Almafi handmade paper, 1989, signed and dated on the title page in pencil, numbered 34/65 (there were also eight artist's proof sets), published by Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York, with their blindstamps, each the full sheet, loose (as issued), in generally very good condition, together with the title, text and justifcation pages, and the original beechwood portfolio box
Each Sheet: 18 5/8 x 14 1/8 in. (473 x 359 mm.)
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Sojka 34-47

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Lot Essay

In his Fourteen Etchings portfolio, in which this print was included, Winters referred to photographic illustrations from a late nineteenth century German book on anatomy. The illustrations included X rays of human skeletons. The portfolio also echoes poems penned by Edgar Allen Poe, whom Winters was very fond of, and is inspired by a list of major constellations that Winters encountered in the fourth edition of Roget’s International Thesaurus. Together with the other prints included in Fourteen Etchings, this print makes allusions to three realities: the microscopic, human, and astronomical.
-Richard H. Axsom, The Philosophers' Stone: The Prints of Terry Winters, in Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998, by Nancy Sojka and Nancy Watson Barr, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1999, p. 20-21

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