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Multiple, 68 x 52 cm portfolio, 65 x 50 cm each lithograph (20).

Collection: Gerhard and Anna Lenz, Lenz Schönberg Collection, Schönberg, Austria (Inv. no. VER-47).

The portfolio Grand Oeuvre - Ivo Michiels 10 Texte / Jef Verheyen 10 Variationen zu Dia consists of ten original lithographs by Jef Verheyen, and ten texts by Ivo Michiels, also lithographs. They are all drawn and written on the stone directly and personally. 

The individual sheets are Rives deckle-edge paper, printed directly from the stone. 

The cover is white and entitled in large green letters: 'Grand Oeuvre'.

The colophon page is entitled in large green letters: 'Ivo Michiels 10 Texte / Jef Verheyen 10 Variationen zu Dia'. Below Erker Press. 

The portfolio shows alternately a sheet of text by Michiels and a lithograph showing a 'Dia' by Jef Verheyen:

1. square
2. trapezium
3. diabolo
4. megaron (Z-shaped)
5. diabolo
6. turned pyramid
7. megaron (turned N-shape)
8. megaron
9. triple square
10. megaron

Verheyen's drawings are grisailles.

The texts are red in the beginning, and then evolve from purple to blue. 

Verheyen's lithographs are numbered on the bottom left (/92), numbered on the center (/10) and signed on the bottom right, all with pencil.

Published by Erker Verlag (Erker Press), Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, Autumn 1981.

Edition of 92 + I-X