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The Dream

Item date(s): 1991

Pippa Skotnes


Pages: 23pp
Size: 369mm
Inscription: Signed by the author.
Edition: #8/25 [& 5/25]


Place publication: Cape Town, RSA
Publisher: Axeage Private Press
Cat. 255-C7 ZA
Exhibition 2017; 2019

Additional notes:
Five original etchings and five transcriptions from the manuscripts of Lucy Lloyd of interviews with the !Kung informants !Nanni and Tamme.

Colophon: "This private edition, with embossings and 5 original etchings by Pippa Skotnes, each signed and numbered by the artist, is limited to:

25 copies numbered 1 to 25

5 artist's proofs numbered AP I to AP V

and 2 hors commerce numbered HC 1 to HC 11

All the etchings and embossings were printed from the original copper plates on Zerkall Buetten paper by the artist, with the assistance of Fritha Langerman and Pascal Bompard.

The text, set in 16 point Platin was screenprinted by hand by the artist, and each book was bound by the artist, with the assistance of Fritha Langerman and Pascal Bompard."

The binding is quarter cloth with decorated papers. The board has warped slightly due to the binding.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0255 - C7 ZA on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Samplings: South African Artists' Books

Basement Gallery, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: GB/11499













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