MORRISROE, Mark and Nan Goldin
Mark Morrisroe (Portfolio)
New York: Pat Hearn Gallery / Renaissance Press: 1996
- $9,500
First Edition. Folio. A posthumous portfolio of 12 photogravure plates derived from the intimate photographs of Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989); produced by Pat Hearn Gallery (New York), where Morrisroe received his first solo exhibition in 1986. Each of the plates (4.5 x 3.5 in.) printed to handmade sheets (15 x 11.5 in.) and hand-numbered as 11/46 to verso by the Morrisroe Estate. The suite introduced by a statement from Nan Goldin, celebrating her old friend and colleague as "Boston's first punk." The photographs, dating between 1978 and 1986, include two nude self-portraits, portraits of lovers and friends, and a few still lifes. Housed in publisher's cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece to front panel. A fine copy, including original tissue guards. Scarce, with no OCLC records located. An elegant memorial.
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