Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Roz Chast: Monoprint of The Four Elements

Roz Chast's cartoon Nature Girl and the Four Elements was published in The New Yorker in 1985.

Nature Girl and the Four Elements
Roz Chast
The New Yorker, February 18, 1985, page 38



The cartoon was redrawn in color for the cover of the collection The Four Elements (1988). The title was simplified and Nature Girl was edited out.



Less familiar is a monoprint of the gag created by the artist in 2013. A monoprint is basically an image created with printmaking techniques, but with an edition size of one. In addition, The Four Elements is hand-colored. This bold image could have been created for a gallery show, although there are other possibilities. It is currently offered for sale at $3,360 by an eBay seller who also has an original Chast watercolor priced at $2,500.






Roz Chast
eBay listing accessed August 12, 2021

Roz Chast
eBay item description

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?item=124829341081&_ssn=schubertiade_music_and_arts&_osacat=0&hash=item1d10689599%3Ag%3Al9EAAOSwHGthAbCR&_odkw=&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=Chast&_sacat=0




Cartoons by Roz Chast and Lee Lorenz






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