"The edition consists of sixty arabic numbered impressions and fifteen roman numeraled proofs. Fifteen books lettered A through O are accompanied by a portfolio of the separate prints numbered and signed by the artist"--Colophon.

"Winter is a book of etchings by Baselitz (©1992) and a poem by Joseph Brodsky, Eclogue IV: Winter (©1977). The copper plates were made by the artist in Derneburg [Germany]. The book is printed on handmade Dieu Donné paper by Karen Tossavainen at Limestone Press, San Francisco"--Colophon.

Poem by Brodsky originally published in Russian under title Ekloga 4-i︠a︡ (zimni︠a︡i︠a︡), 1977; author's translation originally published in the New Yorker, Mar. 29, 1982.

Illustrations: 14 prints : aquatint, etching, dark green on light green ; full-page. Plate marks: 35 x 25 cm.

Title page and colophon printed in dark green and red; text of the poem printed in red, with section numbers in dark green. Five leaves have letterpress on recto and verso.

"For his Hine Editions book ... Baselitz chose as text Joseph Brodsky's poetic derivation from Virgil's eclogues, retitled Winter (1992). Apparently without accommodating style to theme, he created for the fourteen-part poem a series of fourteen vigorously worked mixed-technique etchings of typically artless inverted heads to plumb potentially new meanings, previously denied, from the juxtaposition"--Essay by R. Rainwater in Leaf, spine, word, sign, p. 30.

Leaf, spine, word, sign, p. [6], 52-55

Gift of Charles Henri Hine

Signatures on colophon : "G. Baselitz" and "Joseph Brodsky"

Library owns number 17 of 60 copies

Publisher's white paper boards, lettered in green and with woodcut printed in red on front cover.