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Fifteen Woodcuts
LIMITED
EDITION, one of only 100 copies (out of a total edition of 600 copies)
with an extra woodcut printed from the block at the Gehenna Press, for a
total of sixteen large folio woodcuts plates by Baskin. The Gehenna
Press, founded by Baskin in 1942, was one of the premier 20th-century
fine presses in America. Includes his most famous images from the
1950's: Man of Peace, The Strabismic Jew, Mantegna at Erimitani,
Hydrogen Man, Everyman, Terrified & Frightened Man, The Poet Laureate,
Leonard Baskin (self-portrait 1952), Mourning Woman, Angel of Death,
Death of the Poet Laureate, Torment, Tormented Man, Hanged Man and
Haman. Note: The colophon indicates that the 100 copies with
the extra plate should be numbered in Roman numerals, but this one is
numbered "46" in Arabic numerals.
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