Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 6,480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(FITZ GERALD & CO., VINCENT.) Beard, Mark. Utah Reader. Illustrated with 11 single-page, and 6 double-page linocuts containing 41 different prints on 52 different pieces of paper. Oblong folio, 11 1/4 x15 inches; 278x381 mm, full turquoise stamped silk by Gerard Charriere and endpapers by Richard DeBas. New York, 1986
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copy 14 of only 40 numbered copies signed by beard. A gorgeous artist's book wherein each linocut is a collage with extensive handwork. The prints were hand-drawn by Beard and pulled by him and Marjorie Van Dyke at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop. The work is a continuation of Mark Beard's autobiography, the sequel to Manhattan Third Year Reader.