Carl Andre, set of four Yucatan poems, 1972

Four xerox copies with black and red typescript on thick paper, 28 x 21.7 cm. From the series of 26 Yucatan poems, numbered YUCA 44-70, with xerox copies numbered X 1-26. All works are monogrammed and dated by the artist '©1972@' on verso in lower right corner, with the poem number listed in pencil in the lower left corner, and the xerox copy number in the lower right corner. The Yucatan poems exist in several versions: the original, carbon copies, and xeroxes. This xerox series was made in an estimated maximum edition of 20 copies by Carl Andre and Rosemarie Castoro.

This particular set was executed in 1993, and shown at Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre in Paris, during the exhibition 'Carl Andre/Passport 1960/Yucatan 1972' in 1997. Included are the following typewriter poems: (1) RUINSOFACCOUNT (..) YUCA 56/X 12. Faint bubbling of paper, else very good. (2) VISITTOACK(..) YUCA 61/X 17. Faint bubbling of paper, small brown stains (0.3 cm) on lower margin, else crisp. (3) DEPARTUREFROMMERIDA (..) YUCA 65/X 21. Faint crease lower right corner, near mint copy. (4) PERPLEXITIESHOUSEHOLD (..) YUCA 70/X 26. Mint copy. (total 4) *Carl Andre's Yucatan poems are appropriated from chapter headings of Vol. II of John L. Stephens' 'Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan' of 1848. The artist rearranged the words in grid-like formations echoing his three-dimensional work. Provenance from a private collection Amsterdam/ Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre Paris.