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LONDON Gene Baro has assembled a most impressive collec- Moonstrips Empire News; fifty artists proofs were
tion for the exhibition of `Translatlantic Graphics also printed). Lithographs are rarely printed in
at the CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE. We are not editions of more than seventy-five—any edition of
commentary by 1960/67'
accustomed in this country to take the print so over seventy-five becomes subject to purchase tax.
Charles Harrison seriously. First some statistics. There are 218 prints With a srceenprint there need be no perceptible
by sixty-one artists of whom one-third are Ameri- loss of quality or of definition even in a highly
Transatlantic Graphics 1960167
Camden Arts Centre; Paolozzi's Universal can and two-thirds British. Approximately half involved print in an edition of 550. The tendency,
the prints involve a screen process (some sixty of so far as one is discernible, is towards larger edi-
Electronic Vacuum—Alecto; Picasso's
Vollard Suite—Redfern; Picasso etchings these were produced in London at Kelpra tions and more automated processes.
Studio). Of the rest eighty-four are lithographs; The English lithographers tend to look distinctly
and aquatints—Lumley Cazalet.
seven are etched or engraved; one artist, Cohn old fashioned. Alan Davie, William Scott, Elizabeth
Self, makes dyeline prints; Michael Rothenstein Frink, Ceri Richards, even Hockney and Allen
bears alone the banner of the wood or lino cut. Jones; their works have the air of private pre-
Editions vary from one (Kim Lim) to 500 (Paolozzi occupations privately—often coyly—worked out.

Far left
Andy Warhol
Self-portrait 1966
Screenprint
22 x 22 in.
Edition of 300
Leo Castelli Gallery, N.Y.
Left
Richard Hamilton
Pm dreaming of a white
Christmas 1967
Screenprint
30 x 41 in.
Edition of 75

Far left
Ellsworth Kelly
Cyclamen 1965
Lithograph
35⅝ x 24⅜ in.
Left
James Rosenquist
Spaghetti and Grass 1965
Lithograph
30 x 20 in.
Leo Castelli Gallery, N.Y.
Right
Eduardo Paolozzi
Sun City
Screenprint
Edition of 75
Editions Alecto

Far right
Gillian Ayres
Lorenzo the Magnificent and
Niccolo the Gear
Screenprint
30 x 22 in.
Edition of 75
Editions Alecto