Sold for: $6,875

PROVENANCE
Acquired from Isaacs Gallery, Toronto by the present Private Collection, Ontario

EXHIBITED
The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Individual Sculpture and Photographic Prints by Michael Snow, November 13 to December 31, 1982
The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, extended loan

The following inscription, in four separate boxes, appears on the title-page:

The 36 photographs in this edition were originally SX70 Polaroids. The prints were made by the dye transfer process. Half-tone separation negatives were made using a scanner (a machine which makes an electronic analysis of the original material, allowing for subtle changes within all the negatives). One negative is made for each of three colours: magenta, cyan and yellow. The matrices needed for the final print are made from these separation negatives. The print is assembled by soaking the gelatin matrices in the various dye baths and printing each layer for various lengths of time. The prints were made in collaboration with myself by Nino Mondhe, head of the dye transfer dept., at Creative Colour Laboratories, Hamburg, W. Germany. The edition is limited to 10 hand-painted portfolios each of 9 pages signed and numbered. The 4 images on Page Five were also part of a portfolio of photographs by various photographers produced by Anthony Film Archives of New York in 1982. The paper size in that edition was 15 5/8” x 20” and they were not embossed. The title “Still Living – 4 Acts – Scene 1” and the use of the word “page” are attempts to indicate the merging of textual, painting, sculptural, theatrical and photographic concerns which was the ambition of the work.

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