Le Maréchal

2016

Not on view

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

Overview

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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