Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 32,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
(POP ART.) One Cent Life. Text by Walasse Ting; edited by Sam Francis. Comprising 62 lithographs by 28 artists mostly printed in colors, each signed or initialed in pencil (except the Rauschenberg and Indiana bearing artist's stamps only per usual), with title-page and justification. Folio (overall size 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches; 418 x 295 mm), publisher's plain white wrappers, front cover with blind stamped title, linen dust jacket with scattered foxing; contents laid in loose, as issued, intermittent, minor foxing, chiefly to text leaves and blank margins; blue cloth folding case, unevenly faded. The portfolio contains work by the following artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana (artist's blind stamp), Jim Dine, Karel Appel, Robert Rauschenberg (stamped initials), Pierre Alechinsky and others. This copy stamp numbered 85 from the special edition of 100, and is one of 40 copies reserved for the artists and the collaborators. Printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris (also 2000 numbered copies of the regular edition issued). Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1994, pp. 208-209. Berne: E.W. Kornfeld, 1964