$8,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000
Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Auction: May 12, 2012 3:00:00 PM EDT
1960, each pencil signed, one numbered 19/75 and one numbered 19/25 (one of 25 deluxe copies in Arabic numerals to include the second lithograph, there were also 13 lettered artist's proof copies also with a second lithograph, the total portfolio edition was 95), the full sheets, folded as issued, title pages, text by Radovan Ivsic, and justification signed by the artist in colored pencils and the author in black crayon, Editions Surréalistes, Paris, publisher, loose (the text pages folded), all on handmade Richard-de-Bas paper made with flower petals, blades of grass and fern tips in handmade green Auvergne paper covers within original green Auvergne paper covered porftolio box (as issued).
one lithograph sheet: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (31.7 x 24.7 cm)
other lithograph and text sheets: 12 3/4 x 19 7/8 in. (32.3 x 50.6cm)
portfolio: 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (34.9 x 27.3cm)
[Cramer books 61; see Mourlot 270].