Joan Miró

Property from the Collection of Isadore and Nancy Marder

Joan Miró

1893 - 1983

À toute épreuve (Cramer Books 49)

The complete portfolio, comprising 80 woodcuts printed in colors, some heightened with collage, plus one woodcut printed in colors for the cover, 1958, signed in black ball-point pen on the justification page and numbered XII, an hors commerce copy reserved for the collaborators, from the total edition of 130, with title page heightened with hand-additions and signed again in pencil and dated '24/IV/58', with text in French by Paul Eluard, on Arches wove paper, loose (as issued), printed by Lacourière, Paris, published by Gérald Cramer, Geneva, contained in the original paper, parchment and wooden boards and slipcase (80 prints)

sheets: 320 by 250 mm 12½ by 9⅞ in

overall: 348 by 275 by 52 mm 13¾ by 10⅞ in