signed first edition Half cloth covered with copper
1980 · Pondicherry
by CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO (born 23 March 1952)
Folio. Anthony D'Offay Gallery, .[ff. 48]. white, beige, yellow, peach, blue. pink, red, orange, green, & cream-coloured hand-made papers from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry. 85 tipped-in colour plates. endpapers & inside pages designed by Ettore Sottsass. Original half cloth spine in green. Front cover is covered with embossed copper. Back cover in copper also. In publisher's cardboard box. First Edition, Limited to 1,000 copies, signed and nubered by the artist 502. The eighty-five pastels reproduced here were drawn in the spring of 1980, in Pondicherry on the eastern coast of India. Printed at the Kalakshetra Press, under the direction of C.T. Nachiappan.
(Inventory #: 2715)