Charles Klabunde, American, b.1935
Publisher:
Title: The Myth
Date: 1983
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 55 x 38 cm
Plate: 45 x 29.5 cm
Signed: lower right (under image, in pencil): Klabunde
Credit Line: Presented, 2006
Object Number: NGI.2006.5.1
DescriptionSee also NGI.2006.5.1-7
First published in 1971, Beckett’s The Lost Ones is a stark story of a tribe of unearthly people confined to life inside a cylinder. Klabunde wrote of his grotesque characters: ‘I have twisted and contorted forms to represent the inner conflicts of man in modern society where rules hold sway over reason and intuition. Life is shown naked without love or compassion, dominated by greed.’ This artist’s book, containing seven hand-pulled intaglio prints, was published in a limited edition of 250 copies in 1984, to mark Beckett’s seventy-eighth birthday.
First published in 1971, Beckett’s The Lost Ones is a stark story of a tribe of unearthly people confined to life inside a cylinder. Klabunde wrote of his grotesque characters: ‘I have twisted and contorted forms to represent the inner conflicts of man in modern society where rules hold sway over reason and intuition. Life is shown naked without love or compassion, dominated by greed.’ This artist’s book, containing seven hand-pulled intaglio prints, was published in a limited edition of 250 copies in 1984, to mark Beckett’s seventy-eighth birthday.
ProvenancePresented, the Artist, 2006
Exhibition HistorySamuel Beckett: A Passion for Paintings, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2006
Inscriptionlower left, under image (in pencil): The Myth, 87/250
