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Spaightwood Galleries
120 Main Street, Upton MA 01568-6193; 800-809-3343
Pierre Alechinsky (Belgium, 1927) and Central Park
In the Chinese calendar, the Year of the Snake comes every twelve years. For Alechinsky, a founding member of COBRA (an acronym for the cities that contributed members to the group, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), the Year of the Snake can be an auspicious one. In 1977, also the Year of the Snake, Alechinsky was awarded the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize for Painting and executed one of the prints we are featuring, also called The Year of the Snake. In 1989, Alechinsky's Guggenheim retrospective which had been traveling in Europe for almost two years had finally come to its end, in 2001, we celebrated the Year of the Snake with a large show of Alechinsky's original prints and several drawings; in 2013, the Year of the Sanke will come again, but we have no intention of waiting until then. Only time will tellwhen, but time is whispering in our ears, why not in the fall of 2009 in a salute to Alechinsky's turning 81 (9x9, a number that probably has not significance whatsoever so far as Alechinsky is concerned). We are featuring lots of Alechinsky's favorite images: Central Park, snakes, volcanoes, gardens, dog-kings, smiling crocodiles and sea monsters, and people existing as best they can in a world that often seems to invite extreme emotional responses. (Sometimes you just want to scream!) Still, the central act of Alechinsky's art is the making of marks on a sheet of paper, on a canvas, on a copperplate, on a lithographic stone: for that is what distinguishes artists (visual or verbal) from destroyers.
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Central Park. Original color lithograph, 1975. 175 impressions on Arches plus 50 on japon. There are also 25 impressions H.C. Central Park is also the subject of Alechinsky's most important painting, which depicts Central Park as a monster devouring everyone that enters its domain. Image Size: 495x657mm. Price: $3250.
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Central Park. Original color etching, 1976. 200 signed & numbered impressions. When Alechinsky bought a co-op on Central Park West overlooking the park that runs down the middle of Manhatten for several miles, all of his New York friends warned him that he must unlearn the careless European habits that might lead him to stroll in the Park after dark. Alechinsky set to work and painted his most famous painting, titled Central Park, and began producing etchings, lithographs, and prints combininig the two media on the theme. There were stories in the early 1990s that Alechinsky had turned down several offers in excess of $2.5 million dollars for his painting of Central Park, but we are pleaseed to offer six prints on the same theme—and for considerably less money. Image Size: 119x119mm. Price: SOLD.
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Central Park I. Original color etching and lithograph, 1976. 100 signed and numbered impressions. One of a series of four on the theme of Alechinsky's most important painting, Central Park as the monster who threatens everything that enters its domain. Image Size: 495x657mm. Price: SOLD.
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Central Park II. Original color etching and lithograph, 1976. 100 signed and numbered impressions. One of a series of four on the theme of Alechinsky's most important painting, Central Park as the monster who threatens everything that enters its domain. Image Size: 495x657mm. Price: SOLD.
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Central Park III. Original color etching and lithograph, 1976. 100 signed and numbered impressions. One of a series of four on the theme of Alechinsky's most important painting, Central Park as the monster who threatens everything that enters its domain. Image Size: 495x657mm. Price: SOLD.
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Central Park IV. Original color etching and lithograph, 1976. 100 signed and numbered impressions. One of a series of four on the theme of Alechinsky's most important painting, Central Park as the monster who threatens everything that enters its domain. Image Size: 495x657mm. Price: SOLD.
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Pierre Alechinsky, Paintings and Writings (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum, 1977). Published on the occasion of the award of the first Mellon Prize to Alechinsky, the deluxe edition of 100 is signed by Alechinsky. The book contains essays by Alechinsky on artists like Joan Miró and Bram van Velde, stories by Alechinsky, a photoducmentation of COBRA, and a good selection of Alechinsky's most important early paintings. The work is decorated by reproductions of drawings done especially for the volume. Although unsigned copies are presently selling for as much as $125 in the usedd book market, we are pleased to be able to offer several used copies for $50.00 each.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
To purchase, call us at 1-800-809-3343 (508-529-2511 in Upton MA & vicinity) or send an email to sptwd@verizon.net. We accept AmericanExpress, DiscoverCard, MasterCard, and Visa.
For directions and visiting information, please call. We are, of course, always available over the web and by telephone (see above for contact information). Click the following for links to past shows and artists. For a visual tour of the gallery, please click here. For information about Andy Weiner and Sonja Hansard-Weiner, please click here. For a list of special offers currently available, see Specials.
Visiting hours: Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 pm and other times by arrangement.
Please call to confirm youor visit. Browsers and guests are welcome.
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