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Ellsworth Kelly, Stéphane Mallarmé, and others

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

1992

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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

1992

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

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

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PRINTS, DRAWINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS
STAIRWAY, ST. MARTIN
Ellsworth Kelly
Stairway, St. Martin
1977
ILLUSTRATION FOR "A THROW OF THE DICE WILL NEVER ABOLISH CHANCE (UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N'ABOLIRA LE HASARD)" BY STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
Odilon Redon
Illustration for "A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard)" by Stéphane Mallarmé
1900
THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD COWPER, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN
Thomas Johnson
The Right Hon. William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
n.d.
OAK
Ellsworth Kelly and Gemini G.E.L.
Oak
1992-1993
THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM LORD COWPER, LORD HIGH CHANCELLER OF GREAT BRITAIN
Thomas Johnson
The Right Hon. William Lord Cowper, Lord High Chanceller of Great Britain
n.d.
RED
Ellsworth Kelly and Gemini G.E.L.
Red
2005
SHE WHO IS ILL WED NEVER MISSES A CHANCE TO SAY SO
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
She who is ill wed never misses a chance to say so
1815-1824, printed 1864