Vicente, Esteban A mis soledades voy, de mis soledades vengo. Madrid, Paris: Elvira Gonzálezand Édouard Weiss, 1999. Entire edition 100 copies, this copy #36 .

Portfolio: 20 x 16 ½ x 2". Loose text and prints laid into buckram folder. Clamshell case of greybuckram lettered on each cover, with smooth suede spine, extending inward to 3".

Ten silkscreen prints by Esteban Vicente in multi-colors. Ten pages of printed text with excepts from Calderon, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Luis de Góngora, Tirso de Molina, Garcilaso de la Vega.

Text printed by François Da Ros, Paris; paper hand-made at Paperki, Hondarribia, Guipuzoca (Near San Sebastián Spain); Folder and slipcase made Dermont-Duval Paris; Spine lettered by Erik Kirsaether, Madrid.

Esteban Vicente founded the New York School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, where he was a professor of painting since 1964 until his death. He was one of the first generation of New York School of abstract expressionists. He taught and exhibited in the United States for three decades. A mis soledades voy, de mis soledades vengo was exhibited the New York School

from January 11 to February 24, 2001. It was also exhibited that year in Spain accompanied by eight of the original collages he made for the printing of serigraphs.

Esteban Vicente Pérez (January 20, 1903 – January 10, 2001) known for painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, collage. In 1921 Vicente enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid intending to study sculpture. He completed his training in 1924. He had his first one-man exhibition in Madrid in 1928, after which he left for Paris and did not return to Spain until 1930.

In 1936 he and his American wife Estelle Charney moved to New York City. The (Loyalist) Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. set him up as a Vice Consul in Philadelphia, a position which supported his family for three years. By 1947, after his return to New York from Puerto Rico where he taught Spanish, Vicente established relationships with most of the members of the nascent New York School, participating in their seminal exhibitions at the Kootz Gallery in 1950, in the 9th Street Art Exhibition in 1951 and in exhibitions at the Sidney Janis Gallery and Charles Egan Gallery. Among his many teaching positions were jobs at Black Mountain College, the University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University. His students included Dorothea Rockburne, Chuck Close, and Brice Marden. Subsequently he was represented by the Leo Castelli, André Emmerich and Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Vicente died in Bridgehampton, New York on January 10, 2001. He was survived by his third wife, Harriet Peters.

Although he never exhibited in Spain during the rule of Francisco Franco, in 1998 the Spanish government opened the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia. Vicente continued to work and exhibited regularly well into his nineties. In 1991, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia awarded him the Gold Medal of Honor in the Fine Arts, Spain’s most important honor in the arts. The artist’s work is held in most major museums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

$4,500.00