1980s
Pen and ink copy after one of my favorite artists growing up- Leonard Baskin. Baskin illustrated Dante's: The Divine Comedy. Seems a sin this masterpiece, issued in three huge slip cased volumes in 1969, is still obtainable for under $100.
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"A wondrous thing it was to see his head,
Wearing three faces."
Inferno XXXIV, 35-36
The three unfortunate souls condemned to eternal gnawing in the mouth of Dis are: Judas, Brutus and Cassius.
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A pen and ink copy after another illustration by Leonard Baskin for Dante's "The Divine Comedy" translated by Thomas G. Bergin, Grossman Publishers, New York 1969.
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LEONARD BASKIN
Death Among the Thistles
1959
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Medium
Wood engraving
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Dimensions
composition: 6 x 8 1/16"
sheet: 11 7/16 x 18 1/4"
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Edition
not limited
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I think the above wood engraving ranks up there with Edvard Munch's The Scream as one of the most memorable images of the last 150 years. A minority opinion. Original prints still come up occasionally for sale and seldom go for more than $500. Baskin seems sorely undervalued...
"We're gonna have a TV party tonight
All right!
We've got nothing better to do
than watch TV and have a couple of brews"
Black Flag (1981)
After Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
Painted Linoleum cut
Copies after Leonard Baskin late 1970's
Tristram Shandy
by Lawrence Sterne: "On noses..."
Copy after
Linoleum cut
