Seven Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé

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Seven Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé

Artist Christopher Wilmarth (American, 1943-1987)

Publisher Frederick Morgan and Christopher Wilmarth, New York, N.Y.

Printer Mohammad Omer Khalil, New York

Author Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842-1898)

Date1981

Dimensionsbox: 24 1/4 x 16 7/8 x 1 5/8 in. (616 x 429 x 41mm)
image: 12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (315 x 210mm)
sheet: 15 3/8 x 22 7/16 in. (390 x 570mm)

MediumOriginal prints: 7 etchings with aquatint and die-cuts Text: 9 etched texts (by Wilmarth) Paper: 20 lb Crisbrook h.p. cream wove paper (made by J. B. Green Company, England)

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

2000.56C

Not on View

DescriptionArtists' book consists of nine loose sheets laid into a clamshell box. Each sheet has been printed (with copper plate etchings) and laminated to a second sheet. Several have die-cuts as part of design. On sheets with two plates, the image is on the right and the text on the left. "The seven poems are printed in a signed and numbered edition of 30, of which ten have been bound into books. The paper is 200 pound Crisbrook H.P. and was made in 1970 by the J.B. Green Company, England. The printing was done in New York by Mohammad Omer Khalil. The cases are by four Hands Bindery, New York. Images, handwriting and book design are by Christopher Wilmarth. Published by Frederick Morgan and Christopher Wilmarth, New York, 1981. The seven poems by Mallarmé are from the Mallarmé Oeuvres Complètes edition of the Bibliotèque de la Pléiade, published by the Librairie Gallimard, Paris, in 1945.

Published Referencesc.f. Christopher Wilmarth, Breath: Inspired by Seven Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé (New York, C. Wilmarth, c1982) c.f. Alexandra Anderson, "Notes from the art World: meditations on Mallarmé," Portfolio (May/June 1982), p.7. c.f. A Painter's Poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and his Impressionist Circle (New York, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, 1999. c.f. Brett Littman, "Christopher Wilmarth's glass poems," Glass (New York, N.Y.). no. 71 (Summer 1998), p. 44-7. cf. Philips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 63Exhibition HistoryTMA New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002