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Twelve Eyptian Chairs
Barbara Mauriello
Letterpess with gouache painting, gold tooling, and collage
10 1/4 x 10 3/4 x 3/4 in
edition of 12
I have always like the geometry of the chair in Egyptian art: so clean, flat, precise, simple (not too comfortable to sit in, perhaps, but fun to paint). A couple of years ago, having spent a day looking at Egyptian art, I walked onto the street and found a grimy, battered copy of a Russian novel called "The Twelve Chairs." It had a wonderful stamped cloth case and, for $2, I bought it. Then I thought: why not "Twelve Egyptian Chairs"? Hence, this series of 12 hand-painted books. The painting is as far from Egypt as Hoboken. But I hope that something of the spirit of the original art survives.
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