Black Dice (Coplan-Hurowitz 10-18), John Baldessari
John Baldessari
1931 - 2020
Black Dice (Coplan-Hurowitz 10-18)
The complete portfolio, comprising nine etchings with drypoint, aquatint and photo-etching printed in colors and one gelatin-silver photograph, 1982, each print signed in pencil and numbered 1/35 (total edition includes ten proofs in Roman numerals), loose (as issued), on Arches wove paper, with colophon, printed by Peter Kneubühler, Zurich, published by Peter Blum Editions, New York, with the original wood box, framed (9 prints)
sheets: 420 by 500 mm 16½ by 19¾ in
framed: 480 by 564 mm 18⅞ by 22¼ in
photograph: 205 by 234 mm 8 by 9¼ in
box: 553 by 495 by 50 mm 21¾ by 19½ by 2 in
Condition Report:
With full margins, the prints are in good condition. Some sheets with extremely faint time-stain in the deckle or a few very pale spots of discoloration in the margins, mainly at sheet edges. (Three prints examined out of frames.) The photograph is in good condition apart from tiny bends in three corners and some minor surface scuffs. The title page and colophon with surface soiling and some creases, more apparent on the title page. The portfolio box is in good condition apart from some surface soiling on the reverse.
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John Baldessari
1931 - 2020
Black Dice (Coplan-Hurowitz 10-18)
The complete portfolio, comprising nine etchings with drypoint, aquatint and photo-etching printed in colors and one gelatin-silver photograph, 1982, each print signed in pencil and numbered 1/35 (total edition includes ten proofs in Roman numerals), loose (as issued), on Arches wove paper, with colophon, printed by Peter Kneubühler, Zurich, published by Peter Blum Editions, New York, with the original wood box, framed (9 prints)
sheets: 420 by 500 mm 16½ by 19¾ in
framed: 480 by 564 mm 18⅞ by 22¼ in
photograph: 205 by 234 mm 8 by 9¼ in
box: 553 by 495 by 50 mm 21¾ by 19½ by 2 in
Condition Report:
With full margins, the prints are in good condition. Some sheets with extremely faint time-stain in the deckle or a few very pale spots of discoloration in the margins, mainly at sheet edges. (Three prints examined out of frames.) The photograph is in good condition apart from tiny bends in three corners and some minor surface scuffs. The title page and colophon with surface soiling and some creases, more apparent on the title page. The portfolio box is in good condition apart from some surface soiling on the reverse.
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