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Lot 127
  • 127

Richard Hamilton

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Richard Hamilton
  • Finn MacCool (L. 138)
  • aquatint, drypoint, engraving, etching
  • Sheet L.138: 758 by 565mm; 29 7/8 by22 1/4 in
  • Sheet L. 88: 853 by 689mm; 33 5/8 by 27 1/8 in
Heliogravure, lift-ground and spit-bite engraving and burnisher, 1983, signed and titled in pencil, numbered 120/120; and by the waters of miers (L. 88), drypoint with aquatint, hard-soft-ground etching, 1972, signed and titled in pencil, numbered 44/75, printed by the artist and Also Commelynck and P.Brochet, Paris and Maurice Payne at Petersburg Press, published by Waddington Graphics, London and Petersburg Press SA, on BKF Rives wove paper and on German 'Museum' paper respectively

Condition

Finn MacCool: with full margins, in good condition apart from a soft diagonal crease at lower right edge of sheet, with a rectangular sticker and pencil writing at lower left corner of sheet verso, a piece of mount tape at lower centre sheet verso, unframed. By the Waters of Miers: With full margins (Lullin states the sheet measures 880mm in hight whereas this sheet only measures 853mm. However, it does not appear to be trimmed), a narrow vertical broken crease at lower right corner of sheet and with a soft vertical crease at lower right edge, a minute fox mark in upper margins, occasional handling creases in margins, unframed.
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