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KARA WALKER

 

Porgy & Bess (The libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin), artist’book including a suite of 4 lithographs.
Artist’book, with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker, edition of 400 numbered copies, Quarto, 12 5/8 x 9 3/4 inches, 136 pages, signed by the artist. Bound with red leather spine and printed cotton sides, in slipcase
A suite of 4 lithographs, printed on Somerset paper, different from the images in the book, each 18 x 15 inches, edition 40, signed and numbered by the artist.
$ 11.750,-

 

  

one of the pages from the artist'book

 

one of the pages from the artist'book

 

  

images (details) from the suite of 4 litographs

 

images (details) from the suite of 4 litographs

 

images (details) from the suite of 4 litographs


Porgy & Bess has been controversial since its premiere in 1935; Kara Walker is known for her controversial art on themes of race, violence, and American history.
In her Artist’s Statement, she says of the characters: “they’ve become archetypes of another no less grand drama, that of: ‘American Negroes drawn up by white authors, and retooled by individual actors, amid charges of racism, and counter charges of high-art on stage and screen, in the face of social and political upheaval, over generations.”
This fraught status, along with memories of her mother’s reaction to a cast recording, led her to render them in a straightforward way, “…more an homage to the feeling of the music. And to that feeling I had as a child of a heavy atmosphere hanging around a timeless act of love.”

 

Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport (from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), lithographs/silkscreen, paper size 39 x 53 inches /99.1 x 134.6 cm., edition 35, signed and numbered, 2005

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detail

 

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry (from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), offset lithograph/silkscreen, paper size 39 x 53 inches /99.1 x 134.6 cm., edition 35, signed and numbered, 2005

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Lost Mountain at Sunrise (from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), offset lithograph/silkscreen, paper size 39 x 53 inches /99.1 x 134.6 cm., edition 35, signed and numbered, 2005

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We can offer also a Wall painting installation by KARA WALKER. About this work: please contact us for images, availability, price and other information.