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#(26) BACH:
Edition of 250 of
which 25 copies are signed.
1973 Five
colors 18" x 24"
Client: Tom Luddy,
The Pacific Film Archive, University Art Museum,
2625 Durant Avenue, Berkeley CA 94720. Telephone
(510) 642-1413 All signed copies to The Poster,
San Francisco
(Communication Arts, January/February
1977; Library of Congress 1988 Engagement Calendar; Guided
Listening, Eleanor R. Hammer, Wm. C. Brown
Co., 1990) (facsimile)
Second edition of 3749 of which 26 copies are
signed A-Z as artist's proofs, and five sets
are signed as progressives. Text modified to
change the poster from advertising a film to
advertising the California Bach Society.
March 22, 1977 Five
colors 18" x 24"
Client: Edwin Flath, Director, The California
Bach Society, 1370 Taylor Street, Suite 10, San
Francisco CA 94108. Telephone (510) 474-3226
All signed copies to The Poster, San Francisco
Second printing of second edition, 3389 copies.
No signed copies. Roman numeral III in a circle
beside signature block. April 13, 1979
A limited number of these
original, unsigned prints are available for sale
now from the California Bach Society
Influence: Irish stonework and illuminated
manuscripts |
Irish stonework and a bit from
the Book of Kells seemed just right for the Fifth
Evangelist, as Bach has been called. Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John and Johann. The first edition
of this design was for a sedate film about Anna
Magdalena Bach, shown once or twice at the Pacific
Film Archive and so crashingly dull that it played
nowhere else, far as I know. The poster's reincarnation
as general publicity for the California
Bach Society came somewhat later. Artists probably
invented recycling.
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