American & Modern Art

February 2227, 2020
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LOT 46

Lot 46

Rudy Pozzatti (1925 - )

Rudy Pozzatti (1925 - )
Lot 46 Details
Rudy Pozzatti (1925 - ), American

SERPENT (FROM "DARWIN'S BESTIARY", 1985-1986);
FOLIO: PHYSIOLOGUS THEOBALDI EPISCOPI DE NATURIS DUODECIM ANIMALIUM, 1964

Lithograph; signed, titled and dated 1964 in pencil to margin

Together with:

Folio: "Physiologus Theobaldi Episcopi de naturis Duodecim Animalium", 1964 (Willis Barnstone (English trans.)

Complete folio of twelve lithographs and ten woodcuts on Il Torcoliere, Rome, blindstamped paper; each signed, titled and dated 1964 in pencil, each contained in folders, each with tissue guards. Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Printed by Joseph Blumenthal at Spiral Press, New York in an edition of 325, this folio being signed by Rudy Pozzatti and numbered, copy number 30 in pencil to the colophon page. Contained in a green hardcover folio case with block printed, portrait illustrated title plate.

Together with:

5 various Rudy Pozzatti books and pamphlets including:
Norman A. Geske, 'Rudy Pozzatti American Printmaker', The University Press of Kansas, 1971;

'Pozzatti', calendar (1982) with orange cover and coiled spine, illustrated with woodcuts and lithographic plates, the illustrations being overruns printed for the above book 'Rudy Pozzatti: American Printmaker';
With 3 small pamphlets or exhibition brochures including: 'Stations of the Cross'; 'Pozzatti' (The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, May 11 - June 10, 1985);
'Rudy Pozzatti', exhibition brochure, January 12 to February 11, 1979, The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, Indiana
19.5 x 27 in — 49.5 x 68.6 cm; 21.75 x 15.25 in — 55.2 x 38.7 cm

Estimate $600-$800

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Note:

"Physiologus: A Metrical Bestiary" was written by Bishop Theobald. First printed in Cologne in 1492, it consisted of twelve chapters.

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