Oedipus at Colonus (From the Myth of Oedipus)

 

Kurt Seligmann

  1900 - 1962 (biography)

1944  

etching 

17 7/8 x 11 7/8" platemark 

unsigned, as published in Myth of Oedipus 

3 of 50  

 

Mason 122; Artist & the Book 283; Springfield 41 VI; Frumkin / Serger 107. 

J. Whatman 1941 handmade 

published 

Durlacher Bros / R. Kirk Askew, Jr., NY 

18831 

SOLD

For pricing see inventory number: 18827 The sixth etching, opposite page 16, for "The Myth of Oedipus", a portfolio of six etchings by Kurt Seligmann with a translation by Meyer Schapiro printed by H.G. Kallweit. The portfolio was published by R. Kirk Askew, Jr., owner of the art dealing firm Durlacher Brothers in 1944. The frontispiece etching was pencil signed, the other 5 were not. The colophon was signed in ink by Seligmann. "The Artist and the Book, 1860 - 1960" by Eleanor M. Garvey for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston notes on page 192 "One of few examples of original Surrealist illustration published in the United States, and one of the first important livres de peintres in this country." This portfolio was in the collection of the publisher R. Kirk Askew.