El Caso Sin Remedio, 1980
Serigraph & Silkscreen
Edition 60/115
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil (per the certificate of authenticity)
Collection of Bre Pettis
FA.2025.006
Description
The Spanish title—'The Hopeless Case'—belongs to the multilingual naming scheme of Dallas John's surrealist serigraph series of circa 1979–80, which cast trucks and other workaday machinery in enigmatic allegories. John (b. 1945), a former urban planner turned Denver printmaker, editioned these works as hand-pulled serigraphs, each built from hand-prepared color layers and signed and numbered in pencil.
Sources: https://www.rogallery.com/artists/dallas-john/
The certificate of authenticity issued by American Design Ltd. (Aurora, Colorado) records this impression as edition 60/115, 1980, hand-signed by the artist in pencil. The certificate is filed with the work and photographed as a secondary image.
