Lot 423
  • 423

Jim Dine

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jim Dine
  • car crash (mikro 1-5)
  • Images circa: 530 by 480mm; 20 7/8 by 18 7/8 in
  • Sheets: 754 by 563mm; 29 5/8 by 22 1/8 in
The complete set of five lithographs, 1960, each signed, dated and titled in pencil, inscribed artist proof (proofs aside from the edition of 33), published by Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, with wide margins, on Arches wove paper; and end of the crash (m.6), lithograph, 1960, signed in pencil, numbered 4/32, on wove paper, with wide margins, each sheet with paper discoloration, mottled backboard-staining, occasional handling creases, (M.6 unexamined out of frame)

Condition

Crash 1: With water-staining along left edge of sheet (40cm), mottled backboard-staining Crash 2: Slight uneven surface surface dirt, mottled backboard-staining, a short horizontal tear at right edge of sheet Crash 3: water-staining at lower right corner and edge of sheet, mottled backboard-staining Crash 4: Paper discoloration, backboard-staining End of Crash: Occasional handling creases, a round pressure mark in lower right image, paper discoloration Crash 5: Very slight paper discoloration, backboard-staining, handling marks in the margin, a vertical crease along lower left edge of sheet (c.3cm)
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