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Claude Garache (French, b. 1929): Aquatints 2: 1972-1975

Garache Paintings / Garache Drawings / Garache Drawings 2

Garache Suite Rouge Sur Ingres Rose / Garache Suite Vermillon Sur Ingres Gris_clair / Garache Ebauche du feminin
Garache Lithographs 4

Aquatints 1: 1965-72 / Aquatints 2: 1972-77 / Aquatints 3: 1977-80 / Aquatints 4: 1980-83
Aquatints 5: 1983-88 / Aquatints 6: 1987-91 / Aquatints 7: 1991-97 / Garache Specials: Bleue V & VI

For an introduction to Claude Garache (French, b. 1929) and a select bibliography, click here.
Agripaume. Original color aquatint, 1973. 45 signed & numbered impressions; ours is an H.C. One of Garache's classic images. Image size: 350x465mm. Price: $1600.
Nouvelle Gaume. Original aquatint, 1974. 45 signed & numbered impressions; ours is an H.C. One of Garache's classic images. Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1350.
Arguine IV. Original etching and aquatint, 1972-75. 65 signed & numbered impressions. Illustrated in the Musee Grobet-Labadie (Marseille) catalog and in Claude Garache: Prints 1965-1985, ed. Richard Stammelman and Jean F. Feinberg Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan Uninversity, 1985. Image size: 550x450mm Price: $1500.
Couzane. Original etching and aquatint, 1975. 50 signed & numbered impressions on chiffon du moulin de Larroque paper measuring 660x500mm published by Maeght Editeur, Paris. Image size: 550x445mm Price: $1500.

Dora Vallier has called Garache the first post-modern artist of the nude in whose works there was no sense of space or place and no shadows. I once asked Garache about the shadow in this piece; he looked at it and replied, "It could be water," neither affirming it to be so or denying that it could be a shadow.
L'Ordalie I. Original color aquatint, 1975. 40 signed & numbered impressions plus 120 impressions signed upper right, of which this is one. This work was executed for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 portfolios printed on papier de la main du moulin de Larroque signed by Garache and Bonnefoy and numbered; the first 40 contained a separate signed and numbered set of the prints. There were also 20 exemplaires HC numbered from I to XX. Our impression came from Exemplaire X. Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $850.
L'Ordalie II. Original color aquatint, 1975. 40 signed & numbered impressions plus 120 impressions unsigned impressions for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. This is one of the unsigned impressions. This work was executed for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 portfolios printed on papier de la main du moulin de Larroque signed by Garache and Bonnefoy and numbered; the first 40 contained a separate signed and numbered set of the prints. There were also 20 exemplaires HC numbered from I to XX. Our impression came from Exemplaire X. Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $500.
L'Ordalie III. Original color aquatint, 1975. 40 signed & numbered impressions plus 120 impressions unsigned impressions for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. This is one of the unsigned impressions. This work was executed for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 portfolios printed on papier de la main du moulin de Larroque signed by Garache and Bonnefoy and numbered; the first 40 contained a separate signed and numbered set of the prints. There were also 20 exemplaires HC numbered from I to XX. Our impression came from Exemplaire X. Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $500.
L'Ordalie IV. Original color aquatint, 1975. 40 signed & numbered impressions plus 120 impressions unsigned impressions for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. This is one of the unsigned impressions. This work was executed for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 portfolios printed on papier de la main du moulin de Larroque signed by Garache and Bonnefoy and numbered; the first 40 contained a separate signed and numbered set of the prints. There were also 20 exemplaires HC numbered from I to XX. Our impression came from Exemplaire X. Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $500.
L'Ordalie V. Original color aquatint, 1975. 40 signed & numbered impressions plus 120 impressions unsigned impressions for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. This is one of the unsigned impressions. This work was executed for the deluxe artist's book L'Ordalie / The Ordeal on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 portfolios printed on papier de la main du moulin de Larroque signed by Garache and Bonnefoy and numbered; the first 40 contained a separate signed and numbered set of the prints. There were also 20 exemplaires HC numbered from I to XX. Our impression came from Exemplaire X. Illustrated in Jean Starobinski's Garache (Flammarion, 1988). Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $600.
Beune. Original aquatint, 1975. 45 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1350.
Couze I. Original aquatint with etching, 1975. 45 signed & numbered impressions on Arches paper measuring 505x660mm published by Maeght Editeur, Paris. Illustrated in Argile V (1974). Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1500.
Couze II. Original aquatint with etching, 1975. 45 signed & numbered impressions on Arches paper measuring 505x660mm published by Maeght Editeur, Paris. Illustrated in Argile V (1974) and in Jean Starobinski's Garache (Flammarion, 1988). Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1500.
Bouge Pauline. Original aquatint, 1976. 50 signed & numbered impressions. Illustrated in Argile V (1974). Image size: 300x397mm. Price: $1350.

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