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Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, and others

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, and others

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

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
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.
Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists' Books, NY: MoMA, 1994

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

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