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Only a Brief While Here The nineteen studies in this book are preliminary explorations of ideas for a series of painted relief sculptures that Ana Maria Pacheco will execute in three different materials: bronze, alabaster and wood. They are painted in tempera with a wash of oil, and some include the use of gold and metal leaf. While Associate Artist at the National Gallery, London (1997-2000), Pacheco’s contact with early, pre-Renaissance Italian paintings put her in mind of reliefs and rekindled an interest in confronting the challenges of working between two and three dimensions and using colour. These studies for her new reliefs show a continuing engagement with themes that have preoccupied her throughout her career.

Inkjet on Hahnemühle Natural Art Duo 256gsm. Edition of 19. Text by Robert Bush, set in Bembo. 52 Pages. Quarter leather binding in a drop back box. Each book is accompanied by one of the nineteen original studies. Studies: each approximately 25.5 x 20cm. Boxed: 29 x 23.2 x 3.5cm. Published 2007.

Study numbers 4 & 18 from 'Only a Brief While Here'.

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Sheba and Solomon “The artist’s book, the livre d’artiste, has, and especially in France, a unique place in the art of the preceding and present twenty-first century. The creation Sheba and Solomon (artist’s book) makes a magnificent contribution to this genre. Working in collaboration with Ruth Fainlight . . . both poems and prints give the ancient story’s source a decidedly twentieth century twist. The small format of this volume, encased in crimson leather, contains in its pages a mytho-religious world clothed in the imaginative colour of its verbal and visual language. The vignettes, like the marginalia of medieval bestiaries and illuminated books, and like those uniquely developed by Blake in his illuminated books, are here given in their exquisite embroidery of flora and fauna the most recent continuation of this tradition . . .” Annela Twitchin, extract from ‘New and Recent Prints’ in Collected Essays: Texts on the work of Ana Maria Pacheco, Pratt Contemporary Art, 2004. ISBN 0 9518049 8 7

Sheba and Solomon, Artist’s Book with original hand coloured drypoints by Ana Maria Pacheco and a sequence of poems by Ruth Fainlight. Edition of 20 + 2 artist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs; plates printed by Martin Saull on Somerset Book soft white 175gsm; text set in New Baskerville and printed by Michael Taylor at Paupers Press. Page size: 20.4cm x 15.5cm (8” x 6 1/8”). Full leather case binding in drop back box. Six drypoints are available individually in a separate edition of 15 + 2 artist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs; printed on Somerset Textured 300gsm. Plate size: Solomon and Sheba (i) 18.2cm x 13.2cm (7 1/8” x 5 1/4”). Plate size: Solomon and Sheba (ii-vi) 8cm x 8.4cm (3 1/8” x 3 3/8”).

A Modern Bestiary “ . . . the tradition of the bestiary, text and image, has continued to have unabated appeal as evidenced by the many versions and variations created through the centuries. Among the most pleasurable are the bestiaries created by Lewis Carroll, Apollinaire, James Thurber and, most recently, A Modern Bestiary with poems by George Szirtes and screenprints by Ana Maria Pacheco. With wit and invention in word and image, many of the animals and birds, the traditional exempla of the bestiary, are given very contemporary connotations, be they political, ecological or social . . .” Annela Twitchin, extract from ‘New and Recent Prints’ in Collected Essays: Texts on the work of Ana Maria Pacheco, Pratt Contemporary Art, 2004. ISBN 0 9518049 8 7

A Modern Bestiary, Artist’s Book with twenty original screenprints by Ana Maria Pacheco and forty poems by George Szirtes. Images and text printed by Bernard Pratt on Somerset Book soft white 175gsm in an edition of 55 + 5 artist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Text set in Garamond Light Condensed. Page size: 30.5cm x 26cm (12” x 10 1/4”). Full linen case binding in drop back box Each print is available individually in a separate edition of 25 + 3 artist’s proofs, 2 printer’s proofs and 2 archive proofs. Printed on Somerset Textured 300gsm. Image size: 24cm x 19.5cm (9 1/2” x 7 3/4”). A Modern Bestiary (Artist’s Book) was part-funded by an award from Norwich School of Art andDesign.

Gargantua and Pantagruel Artist's book with ten original woodcuts. Gargantua and Pantagruel I-X: sets 1-20 from a total edition of 30 are bound in book form, signed and numbered on colophon page: 1/20 - 20/20. Text extracts from Francois Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. English text from Books I-V, published by Gibbings and Company Limited, London, 1897; original French text from Rabelais-oeuvres completes coll. l'Integrale Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1973. Woodcuts: block size 12.5cm x 10.4cm (5" x 4 1/8"). Printed on Zerkall Halbmatt 145gsm. Text set in Caslon Old Face, printed letterpress. Full linen case binding in drop back box. Published: Pratt Contemporary Art, 1994.

Quietus est Artist's Book wih seven original etchings. Sets 1-14 (from a total edition of 25) signed and numbered on colophon page: 1/14 - 14/14. Text by Dom Antony Sutch with extracts from the Bible. Plate size: 17cm x 23.6cm (67/8" x 91/4"). Letterpress text set in Caslon Old Face. Printed on Somerset Book soft white 175gsm. Full leather case binding in drop back box. Published: Pratt Contemporary Art, 2000.