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- Artists
- Crumb, Robert
 - Spiegelman, Art
- Swarte, Joost
- Poplaski, Peter
- Edition Details
| Year: | 1998 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 100 |
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Hand-numbered edition of 100 copies, featuring six prints by the following artists:
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Joost Swarte, Pete Poplaski, and Raoul Philip.
This beautiful, unusual (and very rare) set of six prints was privately published by Aline Kominsky-Crumb in November 1998, and printed in the Crumbs' home village in the South of France by the Societe des Constructeurs a *****-Gard (I've deleted the name of the village to repect the Crumbs' much-cherished privacy!).
The set comprises six prints on stiff, textured paper, housed in an illustrated folder.
Each print commemorates a 'forgotten festival' which supposedly takes place on the individual artist's birthday. Therefore, R. Crumb's contribution - 'Fete du Tapage' or 'Festival of Loud Noises' - is celebrated on 30th August (his actual birthday), Art spiegelman's 'Fete de Ste Nicotine' falls on 13th May, Kominsky-Crumb's 'Fat-Burning Festival' is on Auguast 1st, Poplaski's 'Fete de Zorro' on 15th September, and so on. Part of the appeal of the set is recognising the personal significance held by each of 'Fetes' (which should be instantly recognisable to anyone familiar with the artists' published work): Crumb's love of old time music (and hatred of amplified sound); Spiegelman's love of smoking; Kominsky-Crumb's obsession with exercise; Poplaski's love of Zorro, etc, etc.
Published in an edition of only 100 copies, each hand-numbered, the set was intended to have a very limited distribution - principally, one must assume, amongst the artists' own social circle. It was also published in a smaller fold-out version - again limited to 100 - in which each image was reduced to postcard-size.
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