Folder 83
Contains 8 Results:
Who Is This Balding Man, 1995
This print depicts a portrait of a banker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Oh Miss South Africa, 1975
[Aquae Guttae Saxa Excavant Piece for Christian Wolff (Little drops of water bore holes in stones)], 1970
This version is actually unique because the final version was entirely printed. It has been designated as Opus 13. In addition, it includes Phillips' handwritten notations. Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 259. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Notes read "Motto variation on Christian Wolff's 'Stones' (from Prose Selection). Little drops of water bore holes in stones. OP. XIII. / Stage proof [silkscreen with gouache] / Aquae guttae saxa excavant. / (Little drops of water bore holes in stones.)" Added: CEND.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto IV , 1978 - 1979
This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts a bust of Dante with a Humument text that begins, " six now, - with him there, the foremost in Europe - that poets of poets..." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Malebolge, 1978 - 1979
This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts concentric, colored semicircles on a gray background with A Humument text that reads, " ten pungent valleys - they smell the wolves' haunt and continue." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Lyon Surrounded By Doves, 1975
The print in the center depicts the silhoutte of a girl feeding the doves in black and white and on the background one can see the silhouttes of doves flying as depicted in black and blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Humument First Revision Page 15 (print), 2003
The poem title on the background reads: " The Pun Of My Aunt" and the poem reads:" le superiority de standing - le curious arrangement - le shining; de viveur. - the hard monde of separation, - la world de conversation fresh - la lady, beautiful de rejoicing - la porte de douce trance cherie, - un swell chef de sometimes - o ma british douane - mon man le mistake." The original of this print is also held in the Sackner Archive that depicts the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
53 Vicarage Grove: The Face Behind the Aspidistra, 1983
The image depicts a self-portrait of Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.