Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, and others
A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance
1991
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- Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
- Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
- Printer (prints): Bruce Porter, Trestle Editions
- Printer (letterpress): Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress
- Publisher: 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.
Purchased from Susan Sheehan Gallery, NY
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.
Leslie Cozzi, Morgan Dowty, and Rena Hoisington, BMA, "A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," Rotation 2: 20 February 2019 - 6 October 2019.
Leslie Cozzi, Morgan Dowty, and Rena Hoisington, BMA, "A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," Rotation 2: 20 February 2019 - 6 October 2019.
Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists' Books, NY: MoMA, 1994
Inscribed: COLOPHON: (in graphite) 'Kelly, 37'.
Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
1922–2014
born Newburgh, NY 1923; died Spencertown, NY 2015
Meet Ellsworth Kelly
Printer (letterpress)
Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress
2000–2000
Meet Daniel Keleher, Wild Carrot Letterpress
