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Le Maréchal

2016
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Glass encountered Surrealism while training in Paris, the movement’s epicenter, during the 1950s. The drypoints in the three volumes of Le Maréchal relate stylistically to drawings that Glass has produced in ballpoint pen since his days in Paris. These small, often ghostly, images are composed of intertwining figures, animals, and creatures some set in dreamlike landscapes. Each portfolio is accompanied by a poem by the Argentine author Alejandra Pizarnik.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Le Maréchal
  • Artist: Alan Glass (Canadian, active Mexico,1932–2023 Mexico City)
  • Poet: Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentine, Avellaneda 1936–1972 Buenos Aires)
  • Printer: Les Ateliers Moret
  • Printer: Matthieu Perramant
  • Printer: Ricardo González Bejar
  • Publisher: Pharaon
  • Printer: Taller Gráfica Bordes
  • Printer: Germán Calzada
  • Date: 2016
  • Medium: 3 portfolios of drypoint prints in boxes covered with black linen and with images inset on front and back of each box. Each box contains 11 drypoint prints and one sheet of letterpress text with a poem. Works in boxes 1 and 2 printed on BFK Rives 100% cotton, 250 grs and box 3 printed on Hahnemühle 100% cotton, 300 grs.
  • Dimensions: Each box 14 3/4 × 11 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (37.4 × 29.2 × 3.8 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Portfolios
  • Credit Line: Gift of Carlos de Laborde, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.804.1 (1–12), .2 (1–12), .3 (1–12)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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