Basil Ivan RAKOCZI (1908-1979) English/Irish
In the Beginning, 1961, folio of hand-printed etchings on paper, Edition 14 / 50. Loose sheets as issued in folder and slip-case. Thirty-three etched plates, seventeen text on a grey background, sixteen full-page plates, each one numbered and signed by the artist. Hand-printed on Vélin d’Arches, signed by the artist, printer and Alexandre Sarrès who did the lay-out. Printed on the presses of the Circle of the White Stag, the largest measuring 11 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (slip-case 17 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches), minor foxing to some folders, slip-case rubbed. Born in Chelsea, Rákoczi who studied in Paris, founded the Society for Creative Psychology (1935) with his friend Kenneth Hall (1913-1946), and exhibited paintings as the White Stag Group, in London (then Dublin in 1939).
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In the Beginning, 1961, folio of hand-printed etchings on paper, Edition 14 / 50. Loose sheets as issued in folder and slip-case. Thirty-three etched plates, seventeen text on a grey background, sixteen full-page plates, each one numbered and signed by the artist. Hand-printed on Vélin d’Arches, signed by the artist, printer and Alexandre Sarrès who did the lay-out. Printed on the presses of the Circle of the White Stag, the largest measuring 11 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches (slip-case 17 x 13 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches), minor foxing to some folders, slip-case rubbed. Born in Chelsea, Rákoczi who studied in Paris, founded the Society for Creative Psychology (1935) with his friend Kenneth Hall (1913-1946), and exhibited paintings as the White Stag Group, in London (then Dublin in 1939).
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