Property from a Private American Collection
50
Walton Ford
Swadeshi-cide, 1998; La Historia Me Absolvera, 1999; Benjamin's Emblem, 2000; Tale of Johnny Nutkin, 2001; Compromised, 2003; and Visitation, 2004
- Estimate
- $80,000 - 120,000
$87,500
Lot Details
The complete series of six etchings in colors, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins.
all I. 35 3/4 x 23 7/8 in. (90.8 x 60.6 cm)
all S. 44 x 30 1/2 in. (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
all S. 44 x 30 1/2 in. (111.8 x 77.5 cm)
All signed, dated and numbered 'A.P. 12' in pencil (one of 12 artist's proofs, the edition was 50), published by Blue Heron Press, New York, all framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
In my case, I wanted to take the language of the nineteenth-century natural-history illustrators and use it in a way they would never have imagined—to plumb our own collective ways of thinking about the natural world and these beings we share the planet with. Walton Ford "Man and Beast", New Yorker, January 26, 2009
Literature