Ben Nicholson, O.M.

Etching printing with tone, with hand-colouring in black ink, 1965, a rare proof (there is no recorded edition), on hand-made Auvergne paper 

Sotheby's London, The François Lafranca Collection, 1 July 1998, lot 548

With full margins (a deckle edge at each side), in good condition apart from the occasional odd fox mark in the margin, verso with uneven paper discoloration, areas of adhesive residue, a minute area of skinning at lower right corner, (black soiling at extreme lower margin and verso, most likely black ink associated with hand-colouring?), framed. (Pencil inscriptions verso, assumed to be by the printer, François Lafranca).
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