Lot 205
  • 205

Joan Miró

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Joan Miró
  • La Bague d'Aurore (D. 136; See C. Bks. 45)
  • etching and aquatint printed in colors on Rives wove paper
  • plate: 140 by 115 mm 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 in
  • sheet: 380 by 284 mm 14 7/8 by 11 1/8 in
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1957, signed in pencil and inscribed 'épreuve d'artiste X/X', an artist's proof from the total edition of 87, on Rives wove paper, published by Louis Broder, Paris, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, with full margins. Pale light-stain, darkest at mat opening and very faint time-stain at extreme sheet edges. Three of the corners with a spot of adhesive residue. The verso in good condition aside from faint time-stain at the sheet edges, a hinge remnant in the upper proper left corner and an occasional minute fox mark.
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