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Lot 343
  • 343

Donald Judd

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Donald Judd
  • Untitled: 2 Plates (see Schellman & Jitta 118-123)
  • aquatints
  • each 622 by 751 mm 24 1/2 by 29 1/2 in
  • each sheet 746 by 874 mm 29 3/8 by 34 3/8 in
Two aquatints, 1980, each signed in pencil, the first numbered 51/150, the second 17/150 (total edition includes 20 artist's proofs), on wove paper, with the printer's blindstamp, Styria Studio, NY, published by the artist (2 prints)

Condition

Both prints in good condition, with full margins, apart from minor imperfections in the margins. The first with three pale fox marks (one in the image at lower right), the margins with several areas of minor surface soiling at right (one just within the plate), and soft handling creases at the sheet edges, a tiny tear at right center. The verso with four fox marks, two surface scrapes not showing through to the recto. The second with two pale areas of oxidation at side margins, extending into the plate at right, three surface indentations at top margin, again just into plate.
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