Lot 125
  • 125

Salvador Dalí

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Salvador Dalí
  • La Conquete du Cosmos (M. & L. 641-652; F. pp. 98-99)
  • set of 12 etchings and aquatints
  • each plate: approx. 750 by 555mm 29 1/2 by 21 7/8 in
  • each sheet: approx. 995 by 697mm 39 1/8 by 27 1/2 in
The complete set, comprising 12 etchings and lithographs printed in colours with embossing, 1974, each signed in pencil and numbered 62/195, printed by Bellini, published by Jane Lavigne, Paris, on Arches wove paper, each framed

Condition

With full margins, good condition, each with minor light-staining, a band of darker toning around sheet edges, backboard-staining, occasional stray fox marks mostly in margins, each framed. Individual imperfections include: Plate A: three small semi-circular damp-stains in lower left corner, two small areas with faint accretions at upper right sheet edge. Plate E: a small stain at lower right sheet edge. Plate F: two very small stains at lower sheet edge. Plate G: a pin hole in upper right of image, a finger-mark in upper left margin. Plate H: an area of damp-staining in lower left margin. Plate I: lower sheet edge with damp=staining and a thin band of foxing. Plate L: a minute circular loss in upper left margin (burn mark?).
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