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Claude Garache (French, b. 1929): Aquatints 2: 1972-1977

Garache Suite Rouge Sur Ingres Rose / Garache Suite Vermillon Sur Ingres Gris_clair / Garache Ebauche du femenin
Garache Lithographs 3

Garache Aquatints 1: 1965-74 / Garache Aquatints 2: 1972-77 / Garache Aquatints 3: 1977-80 / Garache Aquatints 4: 1980-83

Garache 5: 1983-88 / Garache Specials: Bleue V & VI / Garache Aquatints 6: 1987-97

For an introduction to Claude Garache (French, b. 1929) and a select bibliography, click here.
Arguine IV. Original etching and aquatint, 1972-75. 65 signed & numbered impressions. Illustrated in the Musee Grobet-Labadie (Marseille) catalog and the Davison Art Center (Wesleyan Uninversity) catalogue. Image size: 550x450mm Price: $1350.
Couzane. Original etching and aquatint, 1975. 50 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 550x450mm Price: $1350.

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, and he 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 on which Garache and the poet Yves Bonnefoy collaborated. The book was published in an edition of 120 signed portfolios; the first 40 contained a separate set of the prints. Image size: 250x185mm. Price: $775.
Beune. Original aquatint, 1975. 45 signed & numbered impressions. Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1350.
Couze I. Original aquatint with etching, 1975. 45 signed & numbered impressions. Illustrated in Argile V (1974). Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1350.
Bouge Pauline. Original aquatint, 1976. 50 signed & numbered impressions. Illustrated in Argile V (1974). Image size: 300x397mm. Price: $1350.
Bresque rouge. Original color aquatint, 1975. 50 signed & numbered impressionss on Arches. Illustrated in the catalogue of the 1985 Wesleyan University Museum Garache exhibition. This is one of Garache's deliberately awkward images designed to makes us feel how difficult it sometimes is to inhabit a body, especially if that body is pregnant. Image size: 450x545mm. Price: $1450.
Sandre. Original color aquatint, 1976. 50 signed & numbered impressionss on Arches. This is one of Garache's deliberately awkward images designed to makes us feel how difficult it sometimes is to inhabit a body, especially if that body is pregnant. Image size: 450x545mm. Price: $1600.
Breuille. Original aquatint, 1976. 50 signed & numbered impressions s on Arches. This is one of Garache's deliberately awkward images designed to makes us feel how difficult it sometimes is to inhabit a body, especially if that body is pregnant. Image size: 450x545mm. Price: $1450.
Accroupie II. Original aquatint with etching, 1977. 50 signed & numbered impressions on Arches. One of the standard natural childbirth positions. Image size: 300x400mm. Price: $1350.

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