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Joan Miró
Lot 333

Joan Miró

Plate XII, from Le Lezard aux Plumes d'Or (M. 525)

Closed19 September 2007

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GBP 4,375

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Joan Miró
Plate XII, from Le Lezard aux Plumes d'Or (M. 525)
lithograph in colours, 1967, on wove paper watermark Miró, from the set of 18, signed in pencil, numbered 23/100, published by L. Broder, Paris, 1967-1971, printed to the edges of the full sheet as published, a deckle edge below, the sheet laid to the backboard at the edges, occasional soft handling creases in the margins, pale time staining towards the sheet edges, framed
L., S. 357 x 998 mm.

Specialist note

The present work is from the first edition of e Lezard aux Plumes d'Or published in 1967. Mid-way through printing the project was abandoned by the artist and his publisher because some of the colours used were reacting with the specially commissioned paper. By the time this defect had come to light the original plates had been erased, and as a consequence Miró produced a new series of plates, which were published under the same title in 1971.