Pre Columbian Profile - from the Stamp series by Robert Fried
Pre Columbian Profile - from the Stamp series
Robert Fried
Title
Pre Columbian Profile - from the Stamp series
Artist
Robert Fried
1937 - 1975 (biography)Year
1973
Technique
screenprint with embossment
Image Size
19 9/16 x 15 7/8" image size (incl. emboss.)
Signature
pencil signed, lower right
Edition Size
21/50 (likely an actual edition of 30)
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned; faux postal stamp in lower right reading "WESTERN EDITION"
Reference
The Art Institute of Chicago 1994.755
Paper
cream Arches wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
24891
Price
$400.00
Description
A poster version of one of his stamp series from the late 1960s and early 1970s. While not a formal series, Fried was known for his ongoing postage stamp serigraphs in which he would create a sheet of non-legal tender stamps, including perforations and other official identification marks such as dollar or pound amounts. The story goes that these would occasionally be sent through the United States Postal Service until he was caught.
For each of his stamp series, he would also pull an edition of full-sized original prints of the same image. In keeping with the postage stamps, he first printed the image and then embossed the shape of a perforated stamp around the image, to spec.