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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Blake was one of England's greatest poets and painters. He issued his strange visionary books by a process of his own invention, engraving them, then coloring them by hand. He tried to make every copy different in color-scheme, if not in number and order of the pages. As yet, no satisfactory reproductions of them have been made...
...artist Blake was equally radical. He invented amazing color-schemes, distorted anatomies; in short, sacrificed all realism to the needs of the design. He contained the devout purity of Fra Angelico, the supernatural neurosis of El Gregco, and something resembling Botticelli's line and Michelangelo's force...
There is no other artist like Blake: such strange, impressionistic color schemes and visionary books cannot be imitated. The spirit of Blake could exist in no other man. To miss seeing this complete collection of his works now means to miss seeing them forever, because it will probably be impossible to get together again books from so many private collections...