Gabor F. Peterdi

Tommy's Pond

1966

Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B." Edition: 5 (5/5) Part of a set of 4 prints commissioned for a book Childs did with the German writer Ba...

Glowing Tree Etching, engraving & lift ground, 1958 Signed, titled and annotated in pencil (see photos) Edition: Artist Proof (there was a published addition of 30 with five stencil ...

Signed, dated, annotated "epreuve d'artiste"; Annotated on titled "B.B." Edition: 5 References And Exhibitions: One of the three impressions printed on ARCHES watermark pape...

Magnificent Jungle Cats Etching, drypoint and monoprint inking of the plate Printed by the artist at Atelier 17, New York Annotated 1/5 in pencil Estate stamp and number, verso Editi...

Cover for DLM No. 173 Color lithograph, 1968 Unsigned as issued in DLM Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), called DLM From: DLM No. 173, published October 1968, whic...

El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV Color lithograph, 1976 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma (The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam Edition: 99 (6/99) This one of an edition of 99 from the deluxe edition of the book of the same title There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story) Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez: Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre. Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868): The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...

Martin Wilner Arkopoly (2017 - 2018) Polymer photogravure, 2 plates printed with 35 colors plus black 23.5 x 23.5 inches Edition of 18 Co-published by Eminence Grise Editions and Hal...

Collagraph with Monoprint technique. Each print is one-of-a-kind. This print also uses the Japanese technique Chine-Collee.

Collagraph with Monoprint technique. Each print is one-of-a-kind. This print used the Japanese Chine-Collee technique additionally.

Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition 50

Color softground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint. Edition 50

Color sugarlift aquatint and drypoint. Edition of 35