Death In Venice (Portfolio) by Warrington Colescott

Death In Venice (Portfolio) by Warrington Colescott

Death In Venice (Portfolio)

Warrington Colescott

Title

Death In Venice (Portfolio)

 
Artist

Warrington Colescott

  1921 - 2018 (biography)
Year
1971  
Technique
10 color etchings and aquatint with embossing, illustrating Thomas Mann's novel. 
Image Size
varying plate sizes; sheet sizes are 22 1/4 x 14 7/8" 
Signature
lower right margin, pencil 
Edition Size
49/122, plus various proofs 
Annotations
titled and editioned in pencil 
Reference
Chapin 155 through 174 
Paper
Fabriano Classico 
State
published 
Publisher
Aquarius Press, Baltimore, MD 
Inventory ID
ROJA101 
Price
SOLD
Description

Colescott illustrates Thomas Mann's novel "Death in Venice." On page 40 of "The Prints of Warrington Colescott" author Mary Weaver Chapin notes: '...Aquarius Press invited him to submit ideas for a livre d'artiste. Colescott responded immediately, listing Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice" as his top choice....and by December 1970 they had a contract. Colescott then spent a week in Venice making sketches of the aging hotels along the Lido, the pigeons in the Piazza San Marco and the gondoliers....

The synergy between Mann's text and Colescott's visual language and graphic expression is supberb. Colescott captures the genteel decline of the city's buildings and monuments, collaging many impressions recalled through layers of memory, and the particular quality of sunlight in watery Venice...Colescott subsumes his own quirky style to a certain extent to harmonize with the writer's style and produce a cohesive vision."