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Lot 21

JOHN BALDESSARI
(1931-2020)
Raw Prints

12 – 23 September 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

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JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)

Raw Prints (Hurowitz 3-8, Cirrus pp. 185-187), 1976
The complete set, comprising six lithographs in colors with hand-tipped color photograph and embossing on Arches paper, each signed in pencil, dated, and annotated 'B.A.T.' (a bon à tirer, aside from the edition of 50), with the blindstamp of the publisher/printer, Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles, with full margins, lacking original portfolio box.
14 3/4 x 20 1/2in (37.5 x 52cm)
sheet 18 3/4 x 24 1/2in (47.6 x 62.2cm)

Footnotes

In 1976, John Baldessari first collaborated with master printer Jean Milant at Cirrus Editions with the series Raw Prints. In a typed notecard found in the studio files, Baldessari explains the six prints "were entitled Raw Prints because [the viewer] may complete the prints in their mind or leave them 'raw.' The title is derived from the term 'raw furniture' or 'unfinished furniture' the buyer finishes. The formats of the prints were inspired by a children's book of Kate Greenaway's drawings, Greenaway Pictures: To Trace and Paint." The prints feature candid photographs Baldessari took while visiting a Santa Monica mall. Baldessari then highlights one area of color and one line from each image to reproduce in the lithographs; the six prints represent the six colors of the color wheel.

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