Lot 111
  • 111

CY TWOMBLY | Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. II (B. 43)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Cy Twombly
  • Natural History Part I Mushrooms: No. II (B. 43)
  • sheet: 756 by 557mm 29 3/4 by 22in
Lithograph with collotype printed in colours, with collage and hand-colouring in crayon and chalk, 1974, from Natural History Part I Mushrooms, signed with initials in pencil, numbered 53/98 (total edition includes 17 artist's proofs), with the printer's blindstamp, Matthieu Studio, Zürich-Dielsdorf, published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, on BFK Rives wove paper, unframed

Condition

The full sheet, printed to the edges, in good condition apart from a tear in the lower sheet edge at centre backed with brown tape (measuring approx. 2cm), faint discoloration at the sheet edges and a tiny brown stain at lower left, the collaged element at right lifting slightly, occasional small handling creases and small spot of surface soiling, unframed.
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