Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 537

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DEL RE, MARCO. Salvatore, Gaston. Marsyas. Translated by Franca Trentin Baratto. 10 original color lithographs (including two double-page), as well as a suite of 4 monochrome lithographs, Signed and numbered in pencil. 4to, loose as issued in lithographed wrappers; housed in yellow cloth folding box. Paris: Maeght, 1999
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number 7 of only 15 copies on velin d'arches with an original gouache initialled and dated by del re and a suite of four monochrome lithographs on Japon nacré, each Signed and numbered in pencil. In mythology, Marsyas was the satyr who had the gall to challenge Apollo to a flute competition. Apollo, having won, pursued Marsyas and had him brutally flayed. His blood then turned into the River Marsyas. A work which attracted the attention of many artists is here reinterpreted by Marco del Re. From a total edition of 120