Oh! Toll Toll the Great Masterful Fetish, 1983

  • Lucio Pozzi, American, born 1935

Color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper

  • Sheet: 27 1/2 × 19 1/4 inches (69.9 × 48.9 cm)

Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz

F1987.51.1

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed in pencil, lower right: Pozzi

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 6/184 Inscribed, with date of original drawing, in pencil, lower right: 1974 Inscribed, in artist's hand, on plate, from upper left to bottom of sheet: Oh the beautifully | open legs! What summer perfume | must be left on | the motorcycle seat! | (S. Mattiz / 1921) | The great mast | was rounded and | soft. | I cleaned all | its heat | with my tongue. | (A. Lerzer / 1913) | Oh! toll toll | the great masterful fetish | Let me be let me bee | I have for years yearned to see the sea | And now that I silently stand facing | its horizon, all dead I must die. | io ho tre cose : un davanti | L'altra seitu | e la terza, non me la ricordo | must I | mellow | ? | tic tac | FAMILIES OF THE WORLD : RESENT | THE | TIME HAS | COME.

Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck

1987-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lucio Pozzi, Oh! Toll Toll the Great Masterful Fetish, 1983, color offset lithograph with collage on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Jan and Ingeborg van der Marck in honor of Alan and Marianne Schwartz, F1987.51.1.