Lorca's Last Edition: Bodas de Sangre - Limited Edition 1 of 5 Print

EDITION & MEDIA NOTES: This etching--executed on two etchings plates to create one image--was printed in five colors of oil-based inks (French) on RivesBFK white paper; and, each edition is limited to an extremely small number of prints (six in the first edition, and five in the remaining four). Each etching plate size is 7inches high by 5 inches wide, making the image size 7 inches high by 10 inches wide. The framed work size is 16 inches high by 20 inches wide. My studio techniques included intaglio, aquatint, drypoint, and Chine collé. The etching was done in nitric acid, and required eight separate acid baths per plate. I hand printed this work in Philadelphia at The Center for Works on Paper in August of 2016. Image & Experience: The inspiration for this work came from photographs I took in 1987 while in Granada, Spain. In Spanish, “Dale Café” (pronounced Dah-LEY cah-FEY), means “Give him coffee .” During the Spanish Civil War, a right-wing military man arrested the great poet LORCA and used this phrase “Dale Café” as a euphemism for, “Take him to the firing squad.” And thus ended the life of Spain’s openly gay poet and playwright, Frederico Garcia Lorca by General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano. Lorca’s body was never found but the fascists boasted about how they killed Salvador Dali’s “boyfriend”. The experience in Granada that inspired this image evolved this way: One October night in 1987, my companion (a Cuban poet in exile) and I decided to walk in the area where Lorca's murder may have happened; as we approached a small field atop a mountain, we saw levitating spheres and heard sorrowful moans deep with the wooded area in which we found ourselves. A mist seemed to suddenly arise from the ground near a half-ruined wall as a wolf scampered out of some flowering bushes to sit in one spot. The animal howled for a few minutes and then looked directly at us. The moon appeared through wispy clouds as music of gypsies floated down from nearby caves in mountain. The wolf vanished as quickly as she had arrived. Additional spheres of white light drew close to us . . . and turned out to be a family of lightning bugs. We wandered along a dirt road as crickets beckoned us to our next turn . . . through a piney hedge into the gardens of the Alhambra, which lad been long closed for the day to tourists. We quietly walked into an area and chanced upon a large reflecting pool; a ghostly image by the on the other side of the pool faded in and out of the mirrored surfaces of the waters. We shivered within the magic of Andalucia’s night . . . and cried for poets murdered by small-minded men with large guns . . . and tiny lives. Media: Oil based French inks on Rives BFK white paper/ Mulberry bark paper (Thailand). THIS PRICE INCLUDES: THE MATTED ETCHING IN AN ARCHIVAL MAT; A FRAME (16 inch x 20 inch, Type – Glass & Wood Edge / Semi-Ornate Style, Color - Gold); ALL HANDLING COSTS; SHIPMENT COSTS; CARDBOARD SHIPMENT CARTON; BUBBLE WRAP & OTHER PACKING MATERIALS; AND, A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. The work is wired and ready to hang. Framing includes a brown craft paper backing. A wall hook and nail are included.

Printmaking:Aquatint on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:5

Size:20 W x 16 H x 1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.