Folder 86
Contains 11 Results:
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: V [adam and eve], 1978 - 1979
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [boat of dreams] , 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. A Humument text of this image reads, "falter / drop / fall" "silent, lost / and helpless / sailing" "boat of dreams, and / lost / fear" "boat which is the dream / wreck Come / in" "for / none / return / from the Chance / in themselves / contained" -- Source of annotation: CEND.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto III Gateway, 1978 - 1979
This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Some images of the prints were recycled in the second version of the book but this was not one of them. This print depicts blurred, Italian text in large, colored stencilled letters on a grey and brown background. In the left lower corner, Phillips has inserted a Humument fragment which reads, "yawning before him like a gulf in the depths of a dream the entrance to hell - memory as mourning merely - To the insensible." A handwritten selection in Italian from the Dante canto for which the print is illustrative has been placed in the upper center half of the print. Finally, Phillips has written 'NO' in the center of the print perhaps because he was dissatisfied that the handwritten text had not been properly centered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [I represent reason], 1978 - 1979
This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips did not select this image for his final version of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [fully banished] , 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. 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: Canto XIII (II), 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 Humument text of this print reads, " master -- if these trees could talk, what hard observations were in that ache of wood." 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: Canto V , 1978 - 1979
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto III, 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 an expressionist portrait of Dante with the captions Canto III and Inferno. This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Humument p85 Variation III , 1977
The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Items were removed from matting and were returned to the original folder. Added: CEND.
The Riddle of the Sands , 1990
The poem reads, "The cliche kiss, engraved upon the air - a rain of rice when wrong boys finger the yellow sand; - Two that look then burst the loaded bus" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XIII (III), 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 Humument text of this print reads, "truant and hiding, could I such a step? - I could I could I could I could I could - I must - a suicide of tragic temper - made mistakes with me - I long to come back to my face once more." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.