Weil simone

1997 · 9654 — New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Co 1997. One of 50 copies all on Fabriano Artistico paper each signed by the artist on the colophon. Page size: 4-7/8 inches x 4-7/8 inches; 31 individual leaves cards including "Joker" and 2 "Wild Cards" titlepage and colophon. Bound: housed in red cloth clamshell box by BookLab with title printed in silver gilt on front cover new. The calligraphy is by Jerry Kelly who has printed it letterpress at Kelly / Winterton Press. There are 59 etchings of body parts - some hand watercolored - by Susan Weil from her drawings that were blind-drawn on copper a technique that Weil has used for more than 50 years. The double-sided cards can be shuffled and dealt in any pattern which contributes to the humorous possibilities in the title pun. Further the cards can be re-arranged by simply turning them over creating a new figure. The simple line etchings become incredibly complicated upon closer inspection. Playful and sly touching and always imaginative Ms. Weil gives us her unique view of the human condition touching on varieties of emotions and stages of life with an artist's eye. Vincent FitzGerald & Co unknown books