mounted, initialed and dated in pencil on the mount, signed and dedicated 'For Richard, In memory of a special Easter, 1963' on the reverse, 1963 (MMM, p. 1)

Acquired from Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe, 1996

This luminous early print, on paper with a surface sheen and mounted to off-white board, is in generally very good to excellent condition. There is a tiny nick at the right edge of the print, and there is tiny emulsion loss at the tip of the upper left corner. Neither of these issues detracts in a measurable way from the impact of this beautiful print. The reverse of the mount is soiled, is abraded intermittently at the edges, has two circular glue remnants at the right and left center edges, and penciled ruling at the edges and across the center. None of these affects the image.
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