The Caribbean, Poetry of Derek Walcott and the Art of Romare Bearden. Introduction by Joseph Brodsky
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. First, Limited Edition. 4to, 11 x 9 1/2 inches (303 x 240 mm); 210 pp .Illustrated with six double-page color plates and two full-page color plates by Romare Bearden, together with an ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH LAID-IN, numbered 30/275. Bound in painted cloth and housed in the publisher’s pale blue card slipcase, faintly and unevenly sunned. Book in mint condition .
Number 489 of 2,000 copies, signed by Derek Walcott & Romare Bearden on the colophon page
* Bookplate of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Andrew Grigg pasted on first free flyleaf.
Scarce complete with the original lithograph by Romare Bearden. The artist created eight lithographs for the edition, printed by Ratti of Lake Como, Italy, each issued in editions of 250-275 copies; many have since been separated from the books.
Derek WALCOTT, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, is represented here by poems drawn from Selected Poems (1964), The Gulf (1970), Another Life (1973), Sea Grapes (1976), The Star-Apple Kingdom (1979), and The Fortunate Traveller (1981).
Romare BEARDEN (1911 – 1988) was among the most important American artists of the twentieth century, celebrated for his richly layered collages, prints, and paintings exploring African American life, music, memory, and the cultural history of the Caribbean and the American South. Born in North Carolina and raised in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, Bearden developed a distinctive visual language that fused modernism with folk traditions and jazz rhythms. His work was exhibited internationally, including major retrospectives at Museum of Modern Art in New York, and remains highly influential in both American art and printmaking.
Condition: Fine.
Item number: 1680
Price: $700.00
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