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Early Drawings 1976–1998

Karen Kilimnik’s artist’s book Early Drawings 1976–1998 is kind of a prequel to Kilimnik’s Drawings, also published by Edition Patrick Frey in 1997. Early Drawings 1976–1998 brings together the artist’s own rich and varied selection of around 130 never before published early works on paper. Detailed, finely worked pastel drawings created between 1976 and 1998 are presented along with ink drawings and other work from that same period; together they illuminate the scope, complexity and virtuosity of Kilimnik’s thematic world. For more than forty years, Kilimnik has navigated an inexhaustible cosmos influenced by the traditions of Romantic painting, portraiture, and landscape painting. Her work gives equal weight to a broad array of subject matter, finding inspiration in such diverse sourc