Details
SUZIE ZUZEK (AMERICAN, 1920-2011)
Horoscopes
watercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite on paper
15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.9 cm.) (unframed)
Executed in 1973.
Provenance
Created for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., Key West, Florida, 1973.
Acquired by Lilly Pulitzer, Inc., Palm Beach, Florida, sold Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc., 1985 to private owners.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016.
Literature
Susan Brown and Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962–1985, New York, 2020, p. 85 (illustrated).
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This 1973 painting is exceptionally vivid and detailed. While Zuzek painted many different types of plants and animals, human figures are somewhat rare in her work. The figures and animals that make up this dynamic pattern have sweet and highly expressive faces.

The reverse of this piece offers an insight into the printmaking process. The red channel screen has been exposed onto the reverse, creating a shadow version of the image on the front. The areas that we see in red on the recto appear white on the verso, while the rest of the page had been darkened to a light tan. This phenomenon can also be observed on the reverse of lots 11 and 39.

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