£400.00
R.B.Kitaj colour screenprint, outside edition size ,signed in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, published by Marlborough Fine Art, 1966. Printed on brown Keays Centurion Antique Seal cover paper.One corner lightly creased, a little creasing to ink in centre of image and two deep scratches on verso in the brown card. Else very good.
Sheet size 846 x 584mm (23⅝×35 inches)
Reference: Kitaj Prints. A Catalogue Raisonné by Ramkalawon 40; Kinsman 23 (v)
The plate was made for the portfolio ‘Mahler Becomes Politics, Beisbol ‘ published by Marlborough in 1966. The set of 15 prints. 1 title page, 1 frontispiece. The edition size was 70 plus 5-7 APs (Artists Proofs), some PPs and HCs’. 1-30 published with the book of poems by Jonathan Williams: signed, numbered on lithographed title page by the author: deluxe portfolio set of PP’s dedicated ‘To Chris’ (Prater) signed by the artist and the author. Prints contained within a yellow case made by F & J Randall, London. Published by Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1967.