62 - PENROSE ROLAND

PENROSE ROLAND London 1900-1984 East Sussex (England) "Untitled (Hommage)" (1975). 35x50 lithograph and collage, ex. 37/100 Work signed at lower right and numbered at lower left (in pencil on sheet) Watermark Arches France AE embossed stamp at lower right The print was originally part of the portfolio-book "La Logique Assassine." commissioned by art dealer Luciano Anselmino, dedicated to Man Ray and produced and edited in Paris on July 10, 1975 by Lucien Treillard. The portfolio includes a lithograph by Man Ray, a text by Henry Miller, and nineteen prints made with different techniques and in different sizes, conceived by Hans Bellmer, Sandy [Alexander] Calder, R. Sebastian Matta, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Meret Oppenheim, Giulio Paolini, Roland Penrose, Hans Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Graham Sutherland, Suzuo Takygouchi, and Andy Warhol. In 1976 Anselmino repurposed some of the prints from the original portfolio as independent prints. Hence the existence of two distinct versions: the 1975 version, included in the original portfolio-book, without inscriptions, and the numbered version, signed and dated "1976."