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Edition of 125. Photogravure on 300gsm Somerset Tub sized paper with a chine colle. 45.5 X 56.5 cm. Signed and numbered by the artist on the front. Special Launch Price of £450. In their reworked illustrations from colouring books Jake and Dinos Chapman deliberately play off childhood innocence against the macabre and the sinister. Commissioned exclusively by Counter Editions I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago (II) (2010) illustrates an imagined moment in the mind of a child. The image of sweet, grinning children playing happily with pet rabbits is subsumed into a nightmarish vision of decaying corpses and lurking monsters. Disembodied eyes stare, fearful and bloodshot, whilst the rotting mouth of a monstrous creature growls through the horror. I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago (II) (2010) has been published to coincide with the exhibition Jake or Dinos Chapman at White Cube, London.