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Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

Item date(s): 1970

David Hockney


Pages: unpaged
Size: 465mm
Edition: #5/100 Edition A (See final page for full details


Place publication: London
Publisher: Petersburg Press
Cat. 026 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
The book has been printed in four editions of 100 with 15 artist's proofs, each including the six Fairy Tales and thirty-nine etchings; they are signed and numbered on the final page. Each volume is accompanied by six loose etchings in a sleeve selected from the book, signed by the artist on the face and numbered on the reverse; the editions each having a different set of loose etchings as listed on the final page.

Illustrated as item 62 in Sims Reed Rare Books catalogue " Books, Boxes & Prints" n.d.

Illustrated as item 38 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.

Exhibition notes:
Item 026 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/2976


   


   



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