Pinxit
  • artists' book
  • paper over boards issued without dust-jacket
  • other printing process
  • sewn bound
  • tipped in image[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 33.5 x 26.5 cm.
  • [20] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • signed and unnumbered

Pinxit

Francesco Clemente

Pinxit

description

Artist's book / monograph featuring handprinted gauche paintings of sports scenes such as a tennis court and a baseball diamond on handmade paper juxtaposed with tipped in full color reproductions of figurative paintings by Clemente. The result is a collaboration with Indian miniaturists who hand painted the gauche images on handmade paper and with Clemente. The publication was printed and bound in India with every copy utilizing variable binding matierals and signed in pencil by Clemente on the colophon page.

London, Great Britain: Anthony d'Offay,
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$500.00
Condition:  Fine. Includes slipped-in printed note from the publisher: "Most copies have certain minor defects - slight printing distortions, marks on the covers caused by rubbing etc etc. Such defects are part of this hand made book..." Signed in pencil by the artist.
[Object # 8593]

Pinxit
$450.00
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Other copies of this publication have included the following disclaimer from the publisher: "Most copies have certain minor defects - slight printing distortions, marks on the covers caused by rubbing etc etc. Such defects are part of this hand made book..." This copies has the cautioned defects and a different color spine than other copies we have had. In addition to these there is yellowing to the pages from the tipped in images and a 4 cm. tear along the bound edge of the inside back covers. Image on font cover faded. Signed in pencil by the artist.
[Object # 35955]

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