About This Print
Ay-O derived I Love You B from his own silkscreen work of 1974 titled I Love You (Love Letters) (see IHL Cat. #1472), and Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés (1946-1966), an assemblage containing a headless woman mannequin.
The Artist Comments
Source: AY-O’s Rainbow Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1954-1979, Sadajirō Kubo, Sohbun-sha, p. 160.
"I love you B combines the Mexican fellow's garments [see "The Original Lithograph" on the page I Love You (Love Letters)], a nude and a gas lamp said to be made of pig hide held in the hands of a headless woman's torso suggested by Duchamp's last work [Etant donnés] owned by the Philadelphia Art Museum, repeated in a pattern along with parallel lines. A part of this work I titled Portrait of Yoshiaki Tono [art critic]."
I Love You (Love Letters) by Ay-O, 1974
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #2035 |
| Title or Description | I Love You B |
| Series | |
| Artist | Ay-O (b. 1931) |
| Signature |  |
| Seal | |
| Publication Date | 1975 |
| Edition | 83/90 |
| Publisher | likely self-published |
| Printer | 搨師 助田憲亮 master printer Sukeda Kenryō |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent - work is framed and not examined out of frame |
| Miscellaneous | Provenance: the collection of the Art Academy of Cincinnati |
| Genre | modern print - silkscreen |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | not measured out of frame |
| H x W Image | 25 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (65.7 x 45.4 cm) |
| Collections This Print | The British Museum 1986,0321,0.71 |
| Reference Literature | AY-O’s Rainbow Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1954-1979, Sadajirō Kubo, Sohbun-sha, p. 160-161, cat. no. 278. |
7/24/2021
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