JIM DINE DE KOONIG RIVERS FREILICHER Signed LITHOGRAPHS Self Portrait in Convex Mirror SIGNED Ltd 1st Ed 68/175 Start Price USD 9,299.00 Current Price USD 9,299.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 Location Vestavia Hills, Alabama See more about 'JIM DINE DE KOONIG RIVERS FREILICHER Signed LITHOGRAPHS' Description JOHN ASHBERY   ** SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR ** LIMITED 1ST ED. 68/175 SIGNED   *~* Arion Press / CA / 1984 / Limited First Edition / 68/175   Complete Portfolio with 8 Original HAND SIGNED Prints  *~* Artists:  Richard Avedon, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers.   *~* Together with a foreword by the poet John Ashbery; a recording of his reading of the poem and on the recording, an essay by Helen Vendler.   All prints and Text Sheets measure:  17 3/4" in diameter (450mm); housed in a cylindrical canister, with 32 text sheets, 8 prints, 1 sound disc. Canister is 49cm in diameter x 4cm high.   LIMITED EDITION of 175 numbered copies ~ 68/175 The paper was specially made in rounds at Twinrocker Mill in Indiana; the text sheets are handset in Cochin type in lines that radiate as spokes from a hub holding the page number, so that the pages are literally turned to be read.   The foreword is hand SIGNED in pencil by the poet John Ashbery, also SIGNED in pencil by the printer, Andrew Hoyem in colophon.   Each print is numbered and SIGNED in pencil by the respective artists.  Print by Larry Rivers also dated '83.   The sound disc is enclosed in a square folded sleeve with title:  "Self-portrait in a convex mirror"   The essay by Helen Vendler, "Reading and hearing John Ashbery's Self-portrait in a convex mirror, "appears on p. 2-4 of sleeve.   Cover and Canister made by Atlas Metal Spinning, San Francisco, California *~* CONDITION:  All contents are stored in the original canister.  EXCELLENT CONDITION *~* DEALER PRICING IN THIS CONDITION:  $22,000.00 Offered Today at a FABULOUS Price with NO RESERVE ~ Bid Today~           Place a Bid!