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Spaightwood Galleries
Updated 9/21/05
In the Chinese calendar, the Year of the Snake comes every twelve years. For Alechinsky, a founding member of COBRA (an acronym for the cities that contributed members to the group, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), the Year of the Snake can be an auspicious one. In 1977, also the Year of the Snake, Alechinsky was awarded the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize for Painting and executed one of the prints we are featuring, also called The Year of the Snake. In 1989, Alechinsky's Guggenheim retrospective which had been traveling in Europe for almost two years had finally come to its end, and now, in 2001, the Year of the Snake has come around again. We are featuring lots of Alechinsky's favorite images: Central Park, snakes, volcanoes, gardens, dog-kings, smiling crocodiles and sea monsters, and people existing as best they can in a world that often seems to invite extreme emotional responses. (Sometimes you just want to scream!)
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Pierre Alechinsky's Natural World
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Le Chien Roi / The Dog King (GL 38, 1990) Original color etching with pochoir, 1984 75 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 565x760mm. Price: $3,600.
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Ce hors là (A. 337), Original etching, 1967. 15 signed and numbered impressions. In 1969, Alechinsky added a drawing in the lower margin of this print. Sun bather. Brush and ink drawing, 1969. Dated 2 November 1969 (see aboce for detail). One of Alechinsky's rarest prints combined with an original drawing. Unique! Image size: 195x160mm. Price: $9500.
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Predateur. Original color lithograph and etching, 1983. 120 signed and numbered impressions. This is one of only 26 prints to be included in Alechinsky's retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Image size: 825x610mm. Price: $2850.
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Sphinx en chapeau / Sphinx wearing a hat (GL 38, 1990). Original color etching with pochoir, 1984. 75 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 565x760mm. Price: $3,600.
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Snake Fish. Original color lithograph, 1977. 100 signed and numbered impressions. Executed to commemorate Alechinsky's receipt of the Mellon Prize in 1977 (the "Year of the Snake" in the Chinese calendar), this accompanied the deluxe edition of Alechinsky's Painting's and Writings published to accompany his exhibition at the Carnegie Institue. Image size: 300x210mm. Price: $825.
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Sans Titre II (A. 207). Original color lithograph, 1963. 120 signed & numbered impressions plus 3000 unsigned impressions for an exhibition catalogue. Signed in the stone. Image size: 170x185mm. Price: $400.
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Coin jaune / The yellow corner. Original color lithograph, 1977. 125 signed and numbered impressions. If we begin by focusing on the yellow corner top left, the snake, fangs gaping, comes as something of a surprise. Don't they always! Image size: 399x201mm. Price: $825.
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Herbe potager. Original color lithograph and etching, 1977. 125 signed and numbered impressions. Image size: 645x385mm. Price: $1950.
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De toutes partes (GL 41, 1990). Original color etching with pochoir, 1984. 75 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 565x760mm. Price: $3,600.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: flexible. Call for availability. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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