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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
NAYLOR, PENELOPE. Uaso Nyiro. 7 brush and India ink drawings, one gravure, a double-sided watercolor, and another watercolor collage, printed by Harold Patrick McGrath and Caroyln Prahl of The Press of the Sea Turtle (Cheloniidae), handpainted marbelized endpapers. 457x457 mm; 18x18 inches. Large square folio, original embossed Nigerian Oasis goatskin with design of the Uaso Nyiro River and title stamped in 24k gold along spine, bound by Kim O'Donnell; custom folding clamshell box with gold lettering; prospectus laid in. Tuxedo Park, NY: Tierra Oscura Arts, 1993
number 8 of 22 copies signed by naylor with the 4-page watercolor collage, from a total edition of only 50. A sumptuous livre d'artiste about her experiences living in West Africa in the 1960s. A scarce work as every edition of Uaso Nyiro sold out at its exhibition premiere at the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York.
