Lot 226
  • 226

Portfolio

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portfolio
  • La Magie Quotidienne
  • Overall: 550 by 390mm; 21 5/8 by 15¼in
The complete album comprising nine etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, 1968, each signed and numbered, (the Giacomettis unsigned, numbered 1/10, the Picasso numbered 1/15 as published), published by Louis Broder, Paris, on Misumi paper (the Picasso on Murier D'Annam paper) the full sheets in good condition, apart from the Picasso and the Villon with creasing in the margins, with title page and list of plates, each print loose in original paper wrappers with Giacometti's etching on upper, contained within a linen covered portfolio box

Condition

Andre Masson: Woodcut print in colours, in good condition, very slight creasing at extreme left edge of sheet George Braque: Woodcut printed in colours, in good condition, very slight creasing in upper left corner Alberto Giacometti: Etching, numbered 2/10, in good condition Alberto Giacometti: Portrait etching, numbered 2/10, in good condition, slight creasing along left edge Jean Arp: Woodcut printed in black, in good condition, very slight creasing at edges Pablo Picasso: Etching, soft horizontal and diagonal creasesin top margin and in lower margin extending into image Joan Miro: Etching and aquatint printed in colours, in good condition, apart from a tiny fold to the right tip of sheet Jaques Villon: Lithograph with a diagonal crease at lower edge of sheet extending into lower image, another diagonal crease in top margin, other minor creases Zao-Wou-Ki: Etching and aquatint printed in colours, in good condition
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Catalogue Note

Including: Jean Arp, Idol (A. 233); Georges Braque, Oiseau (not in Vallier); Alberto Giacometti, Young Woman (L. 192); Alberto Giacometti, Figurines in the Studio (L. 193); Andre Masson, Untitled (S. & C. 79); Joan Miró, Untitled (see C. 125; D. 271); Pablo Picasso, Untitled (B. 1460; Ba. 1505; see C. 144); Jacques Villon, Untitled (not in G. & P.); and Zao Wou-Ki, Untitled (A. 111)