Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 442

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JAMES GOETZ
The Primordials.

Portfolio with complete text and 7 engravings, 1946. 457x335 mm; 18x13 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins, losse as issued.

Edition of 30 on Murrillo paper. Each print signed in pencil, lower right. Printed at Atelier 17, New York. Original printed paste board portfolio folder. Very good impressions of these extremely scarce engravings.

Hayter, according to the foreword from the portfolio, published following the death of James Goetz (1915-1946): 'James Goetz was young. He was an artist who became a soldier; I understand a good one… An officer in the 5th Armored Division, he was wounded in action at Alencon. We who worked beside him in the atelier feel that his absence must have been regretted by his men as deeply as it is by us. He returned after convalescence to his preoccupations of before the war. The engraving medium in which, as these prints show, he found an instrument of great power, served him to state the problem of existence…But for the senseless accident which put an end to his work in June 1946 he might perhaps have found a solution in life.'