Title: Molossus (Left Panel)/ Cernunno (Center Panel)/Acerodont (Right Panel)
Medium: Archival inkjet on Somerset.
Size: 14 x 10 1/2 in. left and right panel 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. center panel
Edition: Portfolio of three, Edition of 35.
Release: November 2007
Price: $3,000.00 portfolio of three, $1,200.00 singles.
Philip Taaffe, Molossus, Cernunno, and Acerodont (2007), a portfolio of three Archival inkjet prints printed by Jean-Yves Noblet, Brooklyn. The portfolio was printed on Somerset paper in an edition of 35 with 8 Artist’s Proofs, published by I.C. Editions, NYC.
Foreign cultures and traditions have frequently found a place in the work of Philip Taaffe. Recent paintings take their cue from the ancient craft of paper marbling while works on paper look to the art of paste paper. Paste paper is a form of decorative paper making which originated in the 16th Century. Brushing colored paste onto wet paper, artisans created designs using found objects and special tools. Taaffe has generously produced three sumptuous examples of this ancient craft that have been editioned for this occasion.
The work may be found in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Philip Taaffe has been honored with survey exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, the Galleria Civica of Trento, as well as the Galleria d’Arte Moderna, San Marino that featured a survey of paintings and drawings based on the artists explorations with floating pigments and the paper marbling process. He was included in the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. Taaffe presently resides and works in West Cornwall, Connecticut.