(LIMESTONE PRESS) Brown James Salt Notes

Sale 2451 - Lot 260

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(LIMESTONE PRESS.) Brown, James. Salt Notes. 8 copperplate etchings, 14 lithographs, and 3 original drawings by Brown. Folio, 3/4 leather; linen slipcase inset with an additional etching vignette, light staining to exterior of case. San Francisco: 1990

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one of only 50 copies signed and numbered by brown. "Brown's approach to 'Salt Notes,' the making of it, is concerned with uncovering as well as isolating the irreducible identity of the book. One senses his belief in being direct, in arriving at essential characteristics of, rather than elaborating shape, form, and line. In using sugar lift and spit bite, he connects painting to etching. His oval shapes are like fingerprints, irreducible graphic traces of his encounter with the skin of the plate, stone, and page. One thing not only touches but echoes another, engendering a rhythmic record of color, line, and form. Ink is the salt infiltrating the page"--John Yau (from publisher's web page).