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Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, Bruce Porter, Trestle Editions, Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress, Limited Editions Club

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

1991

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A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, Bruce Porter, Trestle Editions, Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress, Limited Editions Club

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, Bruce Porter, Trestle Editions, Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress, Limited Editions Club

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

1991

Physical Qualities Bound volume with lithographs and letterpress, Sheet: 432 x 315 mm. (17 x 12 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Print & Drawing Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 1995 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number 1995.99
As an artist who in his own words created works “according to the principles of chance” as “a way to remove my own personality,” it is not surprising that the late Ellsworth Kelly was drawn to Mallarmé’s "A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance." In this Limited Editions Club publication, the text of Mallarmé’s poem is interspersed with Kelly’s lithographs, their abstract compositions created in response to the shape and movement of Mallarmé’s text layout.

Publication References

Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists' Books, NY: MoMA, 1994
Purchased from Susan Sheehan Gallery, NY
Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books
A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing and Photograph Society

Inscribed: COLOPHON: (in graphite) 'Kelly, 37'.

Artist

Ellsworth Kelly

born Newburgh, NY 1923; died Spencertown, NY 2015
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Author

Stéphane Mallarmé

French, 1842-1898
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Printer (prints)

Bruce Porter, Trestle Editions

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Printer (letterpress)

Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress

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Publisher

Limited Editions Club

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