Muzot portfolio

Artist Richard Deacon (Welsh, b. 1949)

Publisher Margarete Roeder Editions, New York

Date1987

Dimensions25 3/8 x 25 3/8 in. (64.4 x 64.4 cm)

MediumEtchings (from a shaped plate) on Zerkall-Buatten paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

1988.46A-D

Not on View

Label TextBritish sculptor Richard Deacon approached these prints (the first he had made since art school) much like he approached his sculpture. The cutting and shaping of the printing plates and the scraping, scratching, and polishing of the plates’ surfaces relate to his sculptural process. Spatial illusions and organic forms, also part of Deacon’s sculpture, appear in each of the prints. The portfolio is named for the Swiss town where the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), an influence on Deacon, spent his last years.