JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

René Char: Le marteau sans maître

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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
René Char: Le marteau sans maître
the complete set of 26 etchings and aquatints in colours, 1976, on Japon nacré paper, each signed in pencil, inscribed H.C 5/6, an hors commerce copy aside from the deluxe edition of fifty without text (there was also a text edition of 125 and 25 hors commerce copies), published by Le Vent d'Arles, Paris, the full sheets, deckle edges below and at right, in very good condition, loose in the original grey paper-covered boards with red leather spine, with the title embossed in black on the front (portfolio)
Plates 285 x 230 mm., Sheets 440 x 330 mm. (15 plates)
Plates, Sheets 445 x 660 mm. (11 plates)
Portfolio 680 x 460 mm.

René Char (1907-1988), Paris.
Bernard Moustrou (d. 1991), Avignon.
Acquired from the above by the present owners.

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Le marteau sans maître was a collaboration between the poet René Char and Joan Miró. This suite of etchings without text is one of six hors commerce copies aside from the deluxe edition of fifty, not recorded by Cramer and Dupin. The present set comes from the collection of the author and his nephew Bernard Moustrou.