Nov 10, 2009 - Sale 2195

Sale 2195 - Lot 25

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SCARCE HORS COMMERCE COPY (BACON, FRANCIS; et al.) Batache, Eddy. La Mysticité Charnelle de René Crevel. Complete portfolio, comprising 14 prints by different artists in various media, each plate signed by the artist in pencil and numbered xiii/xlv. Folio, 410x304mm; 16x12 inches, loose as issued in original wrappers; pink satin-covered boards and slipcase, some fading, scattered soiling and scuffing, spine of chemise faded. Internally clean. Paris: Éditions Georges Visat, 1976

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number 13 of only 45 hors commerce copies signed by batache from a total edition of 145. The artists included in this portfolio are: Francis Bacon, Camille Bryen, Jorge Camacho, Robert Couturier, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ernst, Man Ray, André Masson, Roberto Sebastián Matta, Henry Moore, Arpad Szenes, Dorothea Tanning, Vladimir Vélickovic, and Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva. The text was printed by Féquet and Baudier, Paris and the plates printed by Ateliers Georges Visat, except the Moore and Masson which were done by Crommelynck.