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Lot 17
A handmade portfolio/book of works on paper by Rick Bartow
24 April 2025, 11:00 PDT
Los AngelesSold for US$10,240 inc. premium
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Rick Bartow
Wiyot, (1946-2016), a handmade book of drypoint etchings and original works on handmade paper through association with Paper Nao in Tokyo; the cover featuring a watercolor self-portrait on found paper, the interior including 34 drypoint etchings, most hand-colored by the artist, including: "From Japan," 2000, artist's proof; "For Horst," 1998, test proof (assumed, not numbered); "Conical Cap," 1998, test proof; "Night Hawk," 2000, artist's proof; Untitled (hawk), artist's proof; "Otsu-e," 1999, test proof; "Little Hawk on a Rock," 2000, artist's proof; "For Klimt," 2000, artist's proof; "Mad Dog," 2000, artist's proof; "Story," 2000, artist's proof; "Eagle Portrait, 2000, artist's proof; "Sueño Ginka," 2001, artist's proof; "Plagl," 2000, artist's proof 3; "Self 00," 2000, artist's proof; Untitled (face in profile), edition 2 of 3; "Nach Hopper," 2001, artist's proof, with a diagonal crease in paper; Untitled (self portrait with one eye), edition 1 of 2; "Paper Nao," 1998, artist's proof; "Death and the Maiden," version in red ink, artist's proof three; "Cicada and Bird," 1998, artist's proof two; "Little Bird," 1998, edition 1 of 10; "Cicada," 1998, artist's proof two; "Night," 2000, artist's proof; "Little Dancer," 2000, printer's proof; "Hypnotist," 1998, artist's proof; "Strong Spirit," 2000, artist's proof; "Be Still," 2000, artist's proof, reduced in size; "Grace Dignity Hope," 2001, artist's proof; "For J & J & J," 2000, artist's proof; "Nude (Little Queenie for BM)," 1998, artist's proof; "Selbstbildnis," 2000, artist's proof; "For Hyacinth," 2000, artist's proof; "No More Sleep," 1999, test proof; "Sei," 1998, artist's proof; "Sei," 1998, test proof; "Little Hawk," 2000, artist's proof; "Little Bird," 1998, test proof with artist's inscribed notations/edits; "Eros," 2000, proof (inscribed X/P); "Uhn," 2000, artist's proof; "Me & Spegi," 2000, artist's proof; "Selbst," 1998, test proof; "Little Dancer," 2000, artist's proof on thank-you note; "Looking Left," 2000, artist's proof; "Crazy Crow," 2000, artist's proof; "Woman and Box," 1998, artist's proof three; "Toshiaki," 1998, artist's proof; Untitled (female nude), test proof; "Gathering," 1998, artist's proof two; "Scream," 2001, test proof; "Female Self," 2001, test proof; "Lily-Karla," 2003, test proof; Untitled (mask and eye), edition 2 of 4 yellowish discoloration to paper; and Untitled (mask and face in profile), edition 1 of 2; together with two mixed media works, including an abstract composition on envelope and a floral still life on partial manila envelope; and one photomechanical reproduction, "Eagle Spirit," 1998, inscribed with printer's notes; with a Paper Nao print on the interior of the back cover reading: "A Happy New Year / 2001 is a year of a snake / 2001 - 1 - 1 / Paper Nao, each work signed and variously numbered/inscribed, signed multiple times on the front cover.
overall: height 17in, width 12in
overall: height 17in, width 12in
Footnotes
Provenance
Property from a New Jersey Collection
Literature
See Hartz, Jill and Knapp, Danielle M., Eds., Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain, 2015, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, for a discussion of the artist and his artistic process. As outlined in Knapp's thematic guide to the Things You Know But Cannot Explain exhibition, the artist traveled to Japan in 1998. While there, he began experimenting with the process of making drypoint etchings on Plexiglas: "The prints' smaller scale might seem, at first, unexpected in a body of work that includes much grander visual expressions; but in Bartow's hands, the smaller, more tightly composed works carry the same emotional weight and vitality as his large works on canvas and paper... He [made] three trips to Japan, each in a different season - spring, summer, and fall - and to this day, Bartow regularly orders Japanese papers from Naoaki Sakamoto's specialty shop, Paper Nao, in Tokyo."
