Mixed media triptych sugar lift aquatint in colors using gamblin portland black ink, portland cool black ink, and a faust transparent base and with handwork in acrylic paints and charring with a propane torch. Signed and editioned lower right in pencil, 36/125. Printed by Sheila Coppola at Sidereal Fine Art Press, Seattle, Washington. 14 x 33 inches. As issued, in separated folder section of additionally signed Limited Edition copy of Chihuly Black (Seattle, Washington: Portland Press, 2008). Book measures 12 x 15 1/2 inches. Hardcover, full black leatherette. 208 pages with 138 color photographs, silver numbered 36/125 on rear board. TOGETHER WITH: Autograph letter on the artist's letterhead, 1 page, May 4, 2012, to Pierre Levai, longtime director of the famed Marlborough Art Gallery: "Thinking of you & thought you'd enjoy a special edition of my Black Book with a little litho inside. Hope we cross paths soon. Til then / Chihuly [adding a characteristic sketch of one of his so-called "merry-berries."] Print unopened and in very fine condition; letter very fine; book with some scratches and nicks to covers, else very fine throughout.
A very special association example of this print and book whose original edition price was $5000 and was rapidly sold out. Only one copy recorded at auction (2024).
Chihuly first began his black works in the spring of 2006. He started with Cylinders and eventually incorporated black into his best-known series, including drawings. During this time Chihuly created this series including the trifold of three intaglio print images and this handsomely packaged leather-bound clamshell volume.
Pierre Levai (1937 - 2024) joined his uncle Frank Lloyd's art gallery Marlborough, then in London, where he became his closest confidant and helped establish the gallery's international operation in New York in 1963, establishing it as the preeminent international gallery of its time. Pierre grew the gallery's reputation and oversaw a remarkable career as the art dealer to titans of modern art history, including Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Jacques Lipchitz, Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Ad Reinhardt.
Mixed media triptych sugar lift aquatint in colors using gamblin portland black ink, portland cool black ink, and a faust transparent base and with handwork in acrylic paints and charring with a propane torch. Signed and editioned lower right in pencil, 36/125. Printed by Sheila Coppola at Sidereal Fine Art Press, Seattle, Washington. 14 x 33 inches. As issued, in separated folder section of additionally signed Limited Edition copy of Chihuly Black (Seattle, Washington: Portland Press, 2008). Book measures 12 x 15 1/2 inches. Hardcover, full black leatherette. 208 pages with 138 color photographs, silver numbered 36/125 on rear board. TOGETHER WITH: Autograph letter on the artist's letterhead, 1 page, May 4, 2012, to Pierre Levai, longtime director of the famed Marlborough Art Gallery: "Thinking of you & thought you'd enjoy a special edition of my Black Book with a little litho inside. Hope we cross paths soon. Til then / Chihuly [adding a characteristic sketch of one of his so-called "merry-berries."] Print unopened and in very fine condition; letter very fine; book with some scratches and nicks to covers, else very fine throughout.
A very special association example of this print and book whose original edition price was $5000 and was rapidly sold out. Only one copy recorded at auction (2024).
Chihuly first began his black works in the spring of 2006. He started with Cylinders and eventually incorporated black into his best-known series, including drawings. During this time Chihuly created this series including the trifold of three intaglio print images and this handsomely packaged leather-bound clamshell volume.
Pierre Levai (1937 - 2024) joined his uncle Frank Lloyd's art gallery Marlborough, then in London, where he became his closest confidant and helped establish the gallery's international operation in New York in 1963, establishing it as the preeminent international gallery of its time. Pierre grew the gallery's reputation and oversaw a remarkable career as the art dealer to titans of modern art history, including Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, David Smith, Robert Motherwell, Jacques Lipchitz, Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Ad Reinhardt.