Joan Mitchell

The complete portfolio, comprising eight lithographs printed in colors en-texte, with poetry by Nathan Kernan, 1992, signed in pencil by the artist and the poet on the colophon, numbered 44/76 (total edition includes 12 artist's proofs), loose (as issued), on TGL handmade paper, with title page and colophon, printed and published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, contained in the original paper folio and burgundy cloth-covered portfolio (8 prints)

The portfolio contains the following poems:
Joie de vivre
In Time
Morning
Cobble Hill
Mornings on the Bridge
Sky
Urn Burial
Avenue of Poplars

The prints are in good condition, the full sheets. Each sheet with slightly soft corners, consistent with storage in portfolio box. An occasional small, pale fox mark throughout the sheets (recto and verso). Cobble Hill and Mornings on the Bridge are double-page prints with soft creasing along the center fold. Sky with a soft horizontal crease at the top left corner of the sheet. The versos in good condition. With original tissue leaves. The paper folder and box in good condition; the box with some faint surface soiling.
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