Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuelan 1923-2019)

Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuelan 1923-2019)
Transchromies
1965
signed in black ink to limitation page
numbered 39 with inkstamp from the edition 250
the complete portfolio of five manipulatable screenprints on wove and rhodoid
published by the artist
overall 33.1 x 33.1cm
folio

Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the current owner Paul Reeler, founder and Director of Signals Gallery, London, 1965.
The lot is accompanied by a letter of provenance issued and signed by Paul Reeler.
Reference: see Museum of Modern Art, New York, accession number 37.1968.1-5, for another example of this edition.

Note: This portfolio was produced to accompany Cruz-Diez's exhibition 'A Decade of Physichromies' at Signals, London 23 Sep- 23 Oct 1965. Each plate consists of a fixed screenprint with a transparent sheet of printed rhodoid on top. The transparent sheet can be slid across the fixed screen varying the overlap or separation of each printed layer.