May 05, 2009 - Sale 2179

Sale 2179 - Lot 194

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(TÀPIES, ANTONI.) Paz, Octavio. Petrificada Petrificante. 7 color aquatints (including front wrapper) with carborundum and collagraph, one etching with carborundum, and an additional suite, each signed and marked "hc." 521x419mm; 20 1/2x16 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins, larger prints measure double. Large folio, contents loose as issued in publisher's pictorial wrappers in relief, creases to lower outer corner of the plates in suite (may be a printer's flaw); suite in separate, larger portfolio; both bound in pictorial brown-grey linen, scattered moderate surface wear. Paris: Maeght, 1978

Additional Details

one of only 20 unnumbered hors commerce copies signed by paz and tápies, this marked "exemplaire d'exposition," from a total edition of 195. Galfetti 698-705.