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Eight Irish Writers, 1981


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Eight Irish Writers, preface by Seamus Heaney (Co. Dublin: Andrew Carpenter, 1981). Limited edition of 100 proofs (25 hors-commerce, additional display edition, without text, of 15 Artist's proofs). Eight charcoal drawings printed by collotype lithography of W. B. Yeats, J. M. Synge, James Joyce, Francis Stuart, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Seamus Heaney, on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm, inserted in folded sheet with poem, 32.9 x 55.8 cm. Each sheet individually signed and numbered by the artist. Printed by Imprimerie Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris. Folio, unbound, boxed by J.F. Newman & Sons Ltd.1983 First collaboration with the Atelier Chave, Vence, renowned for its lithographic work with Max Ernst. Designs broadsheet published by Club 80, Editions d'Art Luigi et Inge Gerd Mormino: When you are old; Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop; Politics, W. B. Yeats, translated for the first time in French by Patrick Rafroidi, Quand vous serez vieille; L'Entretien de Jeanne la folle et de l'Evêque; Engagement, with centrepiece colour lithograph Image of W. B. Yeats, on Arches paper, 47.5 x 72.5 cm, ed. 100, printed by Pierre Chave, 1983-84. 1985

James Joyce 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
Thomas Kinsella 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
W. B. Yeats 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
John Montague 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
Francis Stuart 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
J. M. Synge 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
Seamus Heaney 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm
Samuel Beckett 1981, collotype lithography on Rives, 32.8 x 27.9 cm