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Marisol, (Marisol Escobar), Paris Review, 1967

Marisol, (Marisol Escobar), Paris Review, 1967

Marisol Escobar

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Description

Marisol, Venezuelan-American, 1930-2016

Paris Review (Untitled), 1967

Silkscreen. Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 150

24 × 30 1/2 in

61 × 77.5 cm

Edition of 150

This work can be exhibited both vertically and horizontally. She installation photos for inspiration.

This elusive early Pop Art work by iconic, pioneering female 1960s Pop artist MARISOL is very rarely found on the marketplace; one reason this amazing print is so scarce is that most are in institutional collections that won't divest! Marisol Escobar is the Parisian-born sculptor of Venezuelan descent who emigrated to the US - known by her first name alone. She dropped her patrilineal surname to "stand out in the crowd" of the burgeoning art scene of the 1960s in New York City. In her heyday she was represented by the Sidney Janis Gallery - which represented artists like Giacometti, Mondrian, Bridget Riley and Jackson Pollock in the U.S. This print has a witty Pop Art feel, with its graphic silhouette of a female face with lips sucking on a coke shaped bottle, the label reading, unexpectedly "Paris Review" instead of "Coca Cola", as it's in the same font as the classic Coke. Marisol created this work as a benefit print for the eponymous Paris Review magazine which invited some of the most famous artists of the era to contribute. Erotic, clever, and not so subtly subversive, this is an iconic 1960s print.

Hand signed, numbered and dated on the recto, with publishers' blind stamp

Published by the Paris Review, Printed by Chiron Press, New York