Nov 05, 2013 - Sale 2329

Sale 2329 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
AUGUSTUS JOHN
Portrait of the Artist: Tête Farouche.

Etching and drypoint printed in black on cream wove paper and printed in the manner of a monotype, 1906. 215x170 mm; 8 1/2x6 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed, titled and numbered 3/25 in pencil, lower margin. Ex-collection P&D Colnaghi, London, with their stock number in pencil, lower right recto; and Chenil, blian stamp lower left recto (not in Lugt). A brilliant, richly-inked and luminous, tonal impression of this very scarce etching. Dodgson 10.