The Myth

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Charles Klabunde , American, b.1935

Publisher New Overbrook Press

Title

The Myth

Date1983

MediumEtching

Dimensions

Sheet: 55 x 38 cm

Plate: 45 x 29.5 cm

Signedlower right (under image, in pencil): Klabunde

Credit LinePresented, 2006

Object numberNGI.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.
Inscriptionlower left, under image (in pencil): The Myth, 87/250
ProvenancePresented, the Artist, 2006Exhibition HistorySamuel Beckett: A Passion for Paintings, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2006