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Lot 71
Joan Miro
One Plate from: Serie I
Closed17 September 2014
Price Realised
GBP 21,250
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Joan Miro
One Plate from: Serie I
etching with monotype colouring, 1947, on wove paper, signed, dated 'New York 17/6/47' and dedicated 'pour Carl Holty, avec toute mon amitié' in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d’essai', a rare working proof printed at Atelier 17 in New York in 1947, before the edition printed in Paris in 1952-53, the full sheet, with deckle edges on all four sides, pale light-staining, a printer’s crease in the left margin extending slightly into the subject, generally in very good condition
P. 375 x 453 mm., S. 515 x 660 mm.
One Plate from: Serie I
etching with monotype colouring, 1947, on wove paper, signed, dated 'New York 17/6/47' and dedicated 'pour Carl Holty, avec toute mon amitié' in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d’essai', a rare working proof printed at Atelier 17 in New York in 1947, before the edition printed in Paris in 1952-53, the full sheet, with deckle edges on all four sides, pale light-staining, a printer’s crease in the left margin extending slightly into the subject, generally in very good condition
P. 375 x 453 mm., S. 515 x 660 mm.
Joan Miro
One Plate from: Serie I
etching with monotype colouring, 1947, on wove paper, signed, dated 'New York 17/6/47' and dedicated 'pour Carl Holty, avec toute mon amitié' in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d’essai', a rare working proof printed at Atelier 17 in New York in 1947, before the edition printed in Paris in 1952-53, the full sheet, with deckle edges on all four sides, pale light-staining, a printer’s crease in the left margin extending slightly into the subject, generally in very good condition
P. 375 x 453 mm., S. 515 x 660 mm.
One Plate from: Serie I
etching with monotype colouring, 1947, on wove paper, signed, dated 'New York 17/6/47' and dedicated 'pour Carl Holty, avec toute mon amitié' in pencil, inscribed 'épreuve d’essai', a rare working proof printed at Atelier 17 in New York in 1947, before the edition printed in Paris in 1952-53, the full sheet, with deckle edges on all four sides, pale light-staining, a printer’s crease in the left margin extending slightly into the subject, generally in very good condition
P. 375 x 453 mm., S. 515 x 660 mm.
Carl Robert Holty (1900-73), New York; a gift from the artist; then by descent.
Christie's, New York, 16 November 1987, lot 204 ($24,000).
Pierre Meuzé (not in Lugt).
Christie's, New York, 16 November 1987, lot 204 ($24,000).
Pierre Meuzé (not in Lugt).
cf. Dupin 75
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Please note that the edition published by Maeght in 1952-53 comprised eight variations in an edition of 13 each, and not a single edition of 13 as stated in the printed catalogue. This trial proof impression with unique monotype handcolouring was printed in 1947.