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From time to time, we will offer the opportunity to our clients to share in a special purchase we have made. Those offers will each have their own special page linked to this one and to our home page. Quantities will be limited and works will be sold on a first-come basis. In almost all cases, we will also have additional works at regular prices by the same artists, so if you cannot find a piece with which you immediately fall in love, don't despair—we may have others by the same artist on another linked page or in inventory awaiting its own web page; in any case, always feel free to email us or to call us. At present, we are offering works by the following artists at special prices:
Bleue VI. Original color aquatint and etching, 1994. Printed by Maurice Felt in Paris and published by Spaightwood Galleries. 25 signed and numbered impressions plus 3 e.a. and 6 H.C. impressions. Image size: 820x610mm. Price: $1500.
Richard Bosman (American, b. 1944), Aground (Stevens 74). Original color serigraph, 1988. 120 signed and numbered impressions for the Madison Print Club plus 20 artist proofs printed at Tandem Press (University of Wisconsin). Despite all appearances, the paper the print is printed upon is actually white. Image size: 552x340mm. Price: $1150.
Karen Kunc (American, b. 1952), Backwater clearing. Original 36-color reduction woodcut, 1993. 120 signed & numbered impressions for the Madison Print Club plus a Roman-Numeral edition of XX for the artist plus 10 arist's proofs. Kunc is one of the most interesting emerging women artists. She has been a visitor at Tandem Press and her work has been featured in shows in the US and abroad. Image size: 715x510mm. Price: $1000.
Hollis Sigler (American, 1948-2001), I find hope on the horizon of my tomorrows. Original color lithograph, 1997. 120 signed impressions plus 20 artists proofs. The text running around the central image says, "February 19, 1996. Somehow . . . no, not somehow . . . I know how I find hope on the horizon of my tomorrow. I heard on the radio this afternoon that researchers have found a protein that shrinks breast cancer tumors. My heart flew. This is the beginning of the end. That we may actually be able to see this disease disappear." Sigler has said that she views her work as "visual poems, and the individual visual metaphors are very important to the pieces. These metaphors, or icons, have become part of a vocabulary that I have used to explore my emotional life on paper. . . . in the Breast Cancer Journal pieces, the vanity showed up again. I have always found it fascinating that we have a piece of furniture called a "vanity," and I have used it frequently as a symbol since 1976. I had always meant vanity, literally: a place where women view their bodies with admiration. Now, the nature of the object "vanity" meant something different. The body was no longer whole. The shattered image of the vanity's mirror reflected woman's pain, her fragmented sense of self. . . . I introduced to the drawings the image of a dead and broken tree. The Lady (a consistent personality in my narratives, but one who is never seen except on rare occasions as a shadow) is trying to repair the tree by reattaching the branches. It is a fruitless gesture on her part, for it will never again be a living tree. The dead tree is the old self, the self before cancer. The lady is struggling with irreversible life changes." In this piece, with its sudden expression of a new hope, the trees are both bandaged, perhaps not dead but only wounded and capable of being healed. Image size: 570x760mm. Price: $3500.
Joan Snyder (American, b. 1940), Requiem. Original color lithograph, etching, and woodcut, 1998. 120 signed and numbered impressions for the Madison Print Club plus 20 artist proofs. Snyder has been an important presence in the feminist art movement since the early 1970s. Her work has been shown in many galleries and museum in the US and Europe. In 1994, "Joan Snyder-Painter: 1969 to Now," was featured at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (MA). In 1998 the Brooklyn Museum of Art presented a retrospective of her prints; in 2005 “Joan Snyder: A Painting Survey, 1969–2005” opened at the Jewish Museum in NYC organized by Katherine French of the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA where it is currently showing (Dec. 2005). A book by Hayden Herrera, with an essay by Jenni Sorkin and an introduction by Norman L. Kleeblatt, accompanies the show. Image size: 657x510mm. Price: $1800.
A. R. Penck (German, b. 1939), Mul. Bul. Dang & Sentimentality. 300 signed & numbered impressions plus 30 artists proofs, 1988. One of the leading German artists working today, Penck has had over 118 one-person shows at museums & galleries in Europe, the U.S., and Japan. For an introduction to his work, see John Yau, A. R. Penck (NY: Abrams, 1993). Printed at the Landfall Press in Chicago. Image size: 748x552mm. Price: $1750.
WU FU WU. Original etching with hand-coloring, 1995. Edition: 120 signed impressions for the Madison Print Club plus 20 artists proofs. Image size: 260x720mm. Price: $1950.
Pierre Soulages (French, b. 1919), Composition. 300 signed & numbered impressions plus 30 artists proofs, 1988. One of the founders of School of Paris post-war Abstract art, Soulages is an important figure in the history of 20th-century French art. A large retrospective of Soulages' works was held at the L'Institut d'Art Moderne de Valence in Valencia, Spain to commemorate the awarding of the 2007 prix Julio González. Soulages was also the subject of a major retrospective at the Musée national d'art moderne, Paris in 1967 with a text by Bernard Dorival. James Johnson Sweeney remarked in his study Soulages (Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972) that "a painting by Soulages is like a chord on a vast piano struck with both hands simultaneously -- struck and held." There is a 3-volume catalgoue raisonné of his paintings edited by Pierre Encrevé (Paris, 1994-1998); there is also a catalogue raisonné of his prints, Georges Duby, Soulages. Eaux-fortes, lithographies 1952-1973, published by Yves Riviere (Paris, 1974) and one cataloguing his etchings and his bronzes: William Rubin & M. Ragon, Pierre Soulages. L'Oeuvre Grave, 1951-1996, Catalogue Exhaustif des Eaux-Fortes et des Bronzes (Paris: Galerie d'Art , 1997). Image size: 892x590mm. Price: $2250.
Antoni Tàpies (Spanish, b. 1923), Llibertat / Liberty. Original color lithograph, 1988. Edition: 300 signed and numbered impressions plus 30 artists proofs printed by Galerie Lelong, Paris, for the 1988 Olympic Print Portfolio. The work was never published because the Olympic Portfolio publisher went bankrupt. We have been told by one of the principal creditors that while the prints were in storage awaiting the outcome of the bankruptcy proceedings, many of the prints were ruined by water damage. All of our impressions, however, are in excellent condition. Image size: 892x590mm. Price: $4650; special price: $3500.

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