Lot 130
  • 130

Circle of Count Mihaly von Zichy

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Count Mihaly von Zichy
  • Souvenir de Jeunesse: a rare set of 24 erotic drawings
  • 13 signed in Latin, two signed with initial
  • watercolour with gouache over pencil on paper
  • sheet size: 25 by 34cm, 9 3/4 by 13 1/4 in.

Condition

The sheets appear to have come out of an album, with small perforations along the left hand edge. There is some yellowing and minor tears in places to the edges, none affecting the image. Some sheets with very minor losses to the edges and / or corners. Remnants of printed cover sheets to all the pages. The colours are fresh with some minor smudges in places. All mounted.
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Catalogue Note

The offered set of erotic drawings, some in colour, some in sepia, includes a title page and it seems likely that they were once bound in an album. Interestingly, all the works have remnants of printed cover sheets glued around the edges. These would have originally concealed the erotic drawings and would have had to have been ripped off to reveal the risqué images beneath, an intriguing device possibly intended to heighten the viewer's experience.

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