Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 1

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ALECHINSKY, PIERRE. Comme à la Maison. 8 double-page prints combining vintage erotic photographs printed in collotype, overlapped with etchings and color lithographed calligraphy by Alechinsky, incorporating a miniature view of the photograph, each numbered 33/120 and signed by alechinsky in pencil, lower margins. 495x573 mm; 19 1/2x22 1/2 (the full sheets). Folio, prints and title/colophon sheet laid into publisher's case of opaque white acrylic base and translucent red acrylic cover, one corner split, half of bottom panel lacking; first plate with thin line of dampstaining along bottom left edge. Paris: Yves Rivière, (1971)

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number 33 of 120 copies of alechinsky's only erotic illustrated work. The etchings were printed by Moret and the lithography by Arte, Paris. Alechinsky, The Complete Books, 175.