Un Coup de des jamais n'abolira le hazard (A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance)
Un Coup de des jamais n'abolira le hazard (A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance)
Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
(American, 1923-2015)
Publisher
Limited Editions, New York
Author
Stéphane Mallarmé
(French, 1842-1898)
Place of OriginNew York
Date1992
DimensionsOverall: 17 x 13 1/2 in. (431.8 x 342.9mm)
MediumBook with lithographs and letterpress text
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number
2003.4
Not on View
DescriptionOne artist’s book with letterpress poem by Mallarmé and 11 lithographs by Kelly. Poem is set in its original format as written in 1897. It is published by Limited Editions in an edition of 300, signed by the artist on the colophon. The book is printed on ivory wove Rives BFK paper, bound in black morocco, and housed in a black solander box.
Published Referencescf.: Bertrand Marchal and Jean-Luc Steinmetz, Mallarmé, ou, L’obscurité lumineuse (Paris: Hermann, c. 1999). cf.: Robert Greer Cohn, Mallarmé’s prose poems: a critical study (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). cf.: Penny Florence, Mallarmé, Manet and Redon: visual and aural signs and the generation of meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). cf.: William J. R. Curtis, Abstractions in Space: Tadao Ando, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra (St. Louis, Mo.: Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 2001). cf.: Diane Waldman, editor, Ellsworth Kelly: a Retrospective (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1996).Exhibition HistoryTMA New Works on Paper Dec. 2005 - Mar. 5, 2006
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