Sep 19, 2017 - Sale 2454

Sale 2454 - Lot 384

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
Estampes by Robert Rey.

Portfolio with complete text and 12 color wood engravings and the décomposition color proof of the van Dongen, 1950. 465x365 mm; 18 1/4x14 3/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

One of 100 copies numbered in Roman numerals reserved for France, aside from the edition of 150. Each print signed by the artists and Rey and numbered "XCVI/C" in pencil, lower margin. The prints made by Gérard Angiolini, Paris. Printed by Coulouma, Paris. Published by L'Image Litteraire, Nice, and Rafael Finelli-Feugère, New York. Each print preceded by text signed by the authors in blue ink. Full black calf portfolio, with a composition after van Dongen in a sculpted frame attached to the cover.

Includes prints after BRAQUE, BRIANCHON, CHAGALL, DESNOYER, R. DUFY, LAURENCIN, MATISSE, PICASSO, UTRILLO, VAN DONGEN, VLAMINCK and WAROQUIER.