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Spaightwood Galleries
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343
Pierre Alechinsky: Transformations
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. In 2001, the Year of the Snake came around again (though for Alechinsky it actually never goes very far away in any case) and we celebrated with a large one-person show of his prints (and several drawings). In 2013, it will come again, but we cannot wait. In the fall of 2009, we will be featuring lots of Alechinsky's favorite images: Central Park, Venice, labyrinths, volcanoes, gardens, dog-kings, smiling crocodiles and sea monsters, snakes, various other kinds of critters, and people existing as best they can in a world that often seems to invite extreme emotional responses. (What do you do when the world is too much with you? Sometimes you just want to scream!)
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Ink. Original color etching, 1989. 90 signed & numbered impressions on handmade rice paper. Image size: 165x110mm. Price: $2750.
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L'avenir de la propriété. Original etching, 1992. 60 signed & numbered impressions on 18th-century correspondance. Image size: 130x78mm. Price: $3250.
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Crevette en salade / Shrimp salad (A. 382). Original color lithograph, 1969. 100 signed & numbered impressions plus xv artist's proofs. Image size: 500x730mm. Price: $3500.
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Revalorisation. Original etching on old commercial paper mounted on arches, 1972-1981. 60 signed and numbered impressions. Once upon a time, the bond had value, then it became worthless. But then Alechinsky printed upon the worthless paper and it again took on value, this time as a work of art. Our impression has all of its coupons still present (others we have seen had had some of them clipped). Image size: 411x311mm. Price: $4500.
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Table reserve II. Original color etching on old paper, 1984. 50 signed and numbered impressions. For this pprint, Alechinsky printed on the pages of the resevation book of one of his favorite New York restaurants. The pages were then hinged to special hand-made paper with Alechinsky's watermark. Each impression is thus unique. The image here does not do justice to the real thing, but the presence of many different colors of inlk drove my poor photo programs nuts. Image size: 502x385mm. Price: SOLD.
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Avec Michel Portal. Original color lithograph, 1980. 90 signed and numbered impressions. This work was designed for to be reproduced on the cover of an album of music by Michel Portal, one of Alechinsky's friends, and, was then, perhaps more importantly, selected by the Guggenheim Museum for the cover of Margins and Centers, the catalogue that accompanied their major Alechinsky retrospective in 1987. This cover was reproduced on at least the Belgium version of the catalogue of this show, which circulated for over two years, going to Germany, Belgium, and ending in Paris. One of ALechinsky's most sought-after images. Slightly browning at bottom and right edges, far away from the image area. Image size: 368x327mm. Price: SOLD.
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Writing Book. Original color lithograph, 1984. 99 signed and numbered impressions. Image size: 490x647mm. Price: $2750.
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Chanps clos (M. 1981, p. 19). Original color etching and lithograph, 1980. 99 signed & numbered impressions. In the midst of a verdant green backsground a city, with highly defied boundaries (the etchings platemark separates it from the green surrounding it), but the green is clearly pushing at the city, like the Old Forest in Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring and clearly has plans for a future takeover in mind. Image size: 900x630mm. Price: $6500.
For of a view of this work on one of our 13 feet high walls, see Gallery Tour 1.
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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: Noon to six Saturdays and Sundays; other times by arrangement.
Please call to confirm your visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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