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The Marriage (From the Myth of Oedipus) by Kurt Seligmann

The Marriage (From the Myth of Oedipus) by Kurt Seligmann

The Marriage (From the Myth of Oedipus)

Kurt Seligmann

Title

The Marriage (From the Myth of Oedipus)

 
Artist

Kurt Seligmann

  1900 - 1962 (biography)
Year
1944  
Technique
etching 
Image Size
17 3/4 x 11 3/4" platemark 
Signature
unsigned, as published 
Edition Size
3 of 50  
Annotations
 
Reference
Mason 121; Artist & the Book 283; Springfield 41 V; Frumkin / Serger 106. 
Paper
J. Whatman 1941 handmade 
State
published 
Publisher
Durlacher Bros / R. Kirk Askew, Jr., NY 
Inventory ID
18832 
Price
SOLD
Description
The fifth etching, opposite page 14, 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.