The blue guitar /

"This catalogue documents the publication of 'The Blue Guitar', a group of etchings by David Hockney, accompanied here by a poem of Wallace Stevens 'The Man with the Blue Guitar". The portfolio contains twenty etchings drawn by the artist in London in the Autumn of 1976 and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Scolar Press (Printer)
Other Authors: Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955, Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Petersburg Press, 1977.
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Summary:"This catalogue documents the publication of 'The Blue Guitar', a group of etchings by David Hockney, accompanied here by a poem of Wallace Stevens 'The Man with the Blue Guitar". The portfolio contains twenty etchings drawn by the artist in London in the Autumn of 1976 and Spring of 1977"--Page 51.
Item Description:"June 28, 1991, With respect, admiration, and love, Stephen Jay"--Inscription in Grolier Club copy.
Grolier Club copy has Stephen Jay's business card inserted.
Colophon (page 51) also includes a full specification of how the original portfolio of etchings was produced, along with a list of techniques used for each particular etching on page 50.
This small-format edition, containing reproductions of the etchings, was published simultaneously to the original portfolio edition (which did not contain Wallace Stevens' poem).
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.
Physical Description:51 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Also issued online.
ISBN:0902825038
9780902825031