Composition IV, from: Etchings for an Exhibition [Planche IV : Gravures Pour Une Exposition], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=joan+miro&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Miró</a>, 1973.<ul><li>Joan Miró (Spanish 1893-1983).</li><li>Etching and aquatint in colors.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>Part of an edition of 75.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching and aquatint in colors is monogrammed in pencil by the artist “M" at lower right corner. It was printed by Morsang, Paris and published by Pierre Matisse, New York in 1973 in a limited edition of 75 impressions. There were also a 15 hors commerce [Out of Trade] proofs aside the standard edition.&nbsp; This is the fourth composition (of four) etchings produced by the artist on the occasion of the 1973 exhibition “Miró, paintings, gouaches, sobreteixims, sculpture and etchings” held at Pierre Matisse, New York. The suite also included one lithograph. The work has been inscribed with the number 72/75 by another hand in the lower left corner.

Composition IV, from: Etchings for an Exhibition | Planche IV : Gravures Pour Une Exposition

Strong impressions of etchings of grotesque masks after original designs by the Italian artist and engraver Aloisio Giovannoli (1550–1618).<ul><li>Sold as a set of 4.</li><li>Each set with nine plates.</li><li>The publisher claims that the masks were inspired by antiquity, but a more likely source of inspiration is the work of Giulio Romano (Pouncey &amp; Gere, Italian Drawings in the British Museum, Raphael and his circle, London 1962, plates 94, 113) and others, including the French Renaissance artist René Boyvin (ca. 1525–1598).</li><li>Published by Venanzio Monaldini, Rome.</li><li>Published as Serie di Mascheroni Cavati dall'antico che per la prima volta escono in luce intagliati in rame opera utile a professori ed amatori delle belle arti.</li><li>Framed and glazed.</li></ul> Plates are lettered either "Libro P[rimo]" or "Libro S[econdo]" and also numbered, inscribed "C.P." (cum priviligio), some have the artist's name, "Ali Gio." On some plates, this has been partially burnished out. There is no record of any previous issue of the plates, and Monaldini's claim on the title page (not present) that&nbsp;prints here are "per la prima volta escono in luce" makes it probable that these prints are published here for the first time.

Italian Grotesque Mask Etchings

Alpine Etchings by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Peter+Doig&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Doig</a>, 2021.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 16.</li><li>Peter Doig (English, born 1959).</li><li>Etching with aquatint.</li><li>Signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 20.</li></ul> A truly special set composed of 16 works, all with matching edition numbers including:AlpinistCat, Christ, AvalancheChamois CabinCouloir (Red)First Cat ZermattGornergrat Sahara DustGornergrat Yellow SkyJet SetTwo Brothers (Red)Wall of DeathYoung Zermatt SkierYoung Zermatt Skiers (Night)Zermatt 2021Zermatt Street Scene C.P.Zermatt Street Scene D.W.Zermatt Street Scene P.D.

Alpine Etchings | Set of 16

Etching No. 163, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=zao+wou+ki&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zao Wou-Ki</a>, 1965.<ul><li>Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese 1921-2013).</li><li>Etching and aquatint in colors on Arches wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed, numbered, and dated.</li><li>Part of an edition of 95, this being 89.</li><li>Printed by Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris, 1965.</li><li>Published by Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris, 1965.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>&nbsp;This etching and aquatint in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist in Chinese and Pinyin at the lower right margin. It is dated in pencil “65” [1965], next to the signature. The work is additionally hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 95 at the lower left margin.&nbsp;This impression is one of the 75 impressions on Arches paper, the remaining 20 were on Japan Nacre paper. In addition to these 95 impressions, there were 20 signed and numbered artist’s proofs. This work was printed and published by Atelier Lacourière et Frélaut, Paris in the same year.&nbsp;The paper bears the blindstamp of the publisher in the lower left corner and the Arches watermark in the center of the lower margin.

Etching No. 163

R.B. Kitaj, from: Six Etchings of Heads, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Frank+Auerbach&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Frank Auerbach</a>, 1980-81.<ul><li>Frank Auerbach (German-British, 1931-2024).</li><li>Etching in Grey and Black on Arches Wove Paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 50.</li><li>Printed by Terry Wilson at Palm Tree Studios, London.</li><li>Published by Bernard Jacobson, London.</li></ul> This was the first series of etchings undertaken by Auerbach with the inspiration for the sitters coming from his friends and family. The series consists of portraits of Julia Auerbach, Gerda Boehm, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossof, Joe Tilson and R.B. Kitaj.

R.B. Kitaj, from: Six Etchings of Heads

Etching No. 135, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Zao+Wou-Ki&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zao Wou-Ki</a>, 1986.<ul><li>Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese 1921-2013).</li><li>Etching and aquatint in Colors on Guarro Wove Paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 99.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching and aquatint in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist in Chinese and Pinyin at the lower right margin,&nbsp;and dated in pencil next to the signature '86 [1986].&nbsp;It is also hand numbered from the edition of 99, at the lower left margin.&nbsp; This work was published by Polígrafa, Barcelona in 1986 in a limited edition of 99 hand signed and numbered impressions. There were a further 15 artist proofs. The paper bears the Guarro watermark.

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