Willem de Kooning, Frank O'Hara

Signed limited edition of O'Hara's Poems with 17 lithographs by de Kooning.

• Frank O'Hara (American).
• Willem de Kooning (Dutch).
• New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1988.
• Folio.
• Illustrated with 17 lithographs by Willem de Kooning.
• Edition limited to 550 numbered copies with Willem de Kooning's facsimile, authorized signature taken from the hand-signed Bon a Tirer proof. 
• Bound in original black morocco with clamshell box.

"The Museum of Modern Art honored Frank O'Hara with a memorial edition of his poetry illustrated by artists who knew and loved him foremost among them, William de Kooning. De Kooning made his drawings on mylar which he then presented to the Museum. A quarter of a century later, the mylar drawings were transferred to lithographic plates and printed under the supervision of the artist and the Museum of Modern Art solely in order to illustrate the Club's edition of those O'Hara poems that had so moved de Kooning. Seventeen of de Kooning's eighteen charcoal drawings are reproduced here for the first time as originally intended — with their subtle strokes and wide tonal range" (Publisher).