This rare Alex Katz 'Face of the Poet' album is the complete set of fourteen aquatints in colors, on J. Green Hotpress paper. Conceived in 1978, each print is signed...
This rare Alex Katz 'Face of the Poet' album is the complete set of fourteen aquatints in colors, on J. Green Hotpress paper. Conceived in 1978, each print is signed in pencil and numbered 13/25 (there were also ten artist's proof sets), co-published by Brooke Alexander, Inc., and Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York. This piece comes with the table of contents and justification pages, and booklet with poems by the fourteen authors and wooden portfolio box. Each Sheet is 14 ½ x 19 in.
The poets pictured in the album are Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Michael Lally, Ann Lauterbach, Gerard Malanga, Alice Notley, John Perreault, Carter Ratcliff, Rene Ricard, Peter Schjeldahl, Tony Towle, Bill Zavatsky