Search: International Artists Books


Introduction |  Basic |  Guided |  Advanced |  Tips


    Full Details


Ficciones

Item date(s): 1984

Jorge Luis Borges
Sol LeWitt  - (illustrated by)


Pages: xxxii, 306pp
Size: 210mm
Edition: #917/1500

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: New York
Publisher: The Limited Editions Club
Cat. 99 (1996)
Exhibition 1996; 2019

Additional notes:
LeWitt’s conceptual illustrations, each based on the elemental form of a cube, create a counterpoint with the text, which is enclosed within a linear framework, and together they “offer a world of endlessly expanding mazes.”

Printed by The Anthoensen Press. Signed by the Artist.

Illustrated on page 162 of Fine Print, Volume 12, Number 3, 1986 and reviewed on page 173.

Illustrated on page 43 of Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988 by Donna Stein, 1989.

Illustrated in Blood on Paper (Victoria & Albert Museum), 2008.

See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5080.

Illustrated as item 50 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.

Illustrated as item 117 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.

URSUS Catalogue. Miscellany December 2019

Jorge Luis BORGES Ficciones. xxxii, 306, [4] pp. Illustrated with 22 silk screens by Jo Watanabe after original drawings by Sol Lewitt. Square 4to., 203 x 200 mm, bound in publisher’s full black cowhide, in original black cardboard slipcase. New York: The Anthoensen Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1984.

Watanabe was LeWitt’s printer of choice for his graphic work. Signed by LeWitt in the colophon. One of 1500 copies designed by Sol Lewitt and set in Cloister Bold by Mackenzie-Harris Corp Lewison, Tate Gallery Catalogue, p. 73. LEC 541.

Exhibition notes:
Item 99 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections. Johannesburg Art Gallery. 25 August to 27 October 1996

Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts. JGCBA, WAM. 26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/687


   


   


   


   


   



© Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA). All rights reserved.