This is a very rare single print from S Clay Wilson's "Twenty Drawings Portfolio"
This listing is for 1 print from the original 20 print set.
This complete portfolio sold recently for over 6000.00! There were only 100 portfolios printed.
Below is a description about the original set.
“This rare Deluxe Portfolio of S.
Clay Wilson’s Twenty Drawings was published in 1967 by The Abington Book Shop
in Lawrence, Kansas. Twenty "dense pack" drawings and four miniature
cartoon portraits by Wilson were printed offset and published by beat poet
Charley Plymell (printer of the first issue of Zap Comics). The reproduced
drawings, all approximately 11-1/2 x 13-1/2", were included loose-leaf in
the portfolio. The portraits (a cowboy, a pirate, a demon, and a biker) were
used in rotation as cover illustrations for the regular edition, approximately
100 portfolios per "portrait". The Deluxe Portfolios, of which only
twenty-five were produced, included all four drawings on one sheet of paper,
tipped onto the pink-tinted Strathmore Artist laid paper cover. Included with
this portfolio is the rarely found colophon sheet with copyright, publisher,
and original price.
The chaotic,
no-holds-barred Twenty Drawings portfolio, which blatantly defied the
postwar Comics Code Authority, is sometimes credited with launching Wilson from
Kansas-based underground darling to internationally recognized counterculture
phenom within a year of its publication. By the time he reached San Francisco
in 1968, R. Crumb already knew of this portfolio and invited Wilson to
contribute to Zap. Arguably the more well-known artist today, Crumb
nevertheless credited Wilson with popularizing Zap with his
outrageously controversial work, and for inadvertantly pushing Crumb to develop
the style he would become famous for. In an interview, Crumb would state:
"[Zap] didn't get that explicity outrageous. That kind of happened after
meeting Wilson. The guy was just completely unleashed, totally. ...No one had
ever done that before. Ever."
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