Nov 09, 2009 - Sale 2194

Sale 2194 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA
A group of 6 etchings with aquatint and drypoint executed in Bordeaux between 1824 and 1828.

Each on ivory wove paper, 1824-28 (printed later). Each approximately 190x120 mm; 7 1/2x4 3/4 inches, full margins. Each in the final state. Each an edition of 7. Each printed by Russell T. Limbach, Middletown, Connecticut, 1960.

Among these extremely scarce subjects, only a handful of prints are known in lifetime impressions (Harris 32 and 34). According to Harris, a very small posthumous edition on heavy laid paper was printed at the Calcografiá, Madrid, in 1859 for John Savile Lumley. Subsequently, 3 impressions of each subject were made for the dealers Colnaghi, London, when they acquired the plates in 1926.

The plates were then acquired by the American collector Philip Hofer, who had Limback print this small edition in 1960. Delteil 25-29; Harris 30-34 (Harris describes the 6th print in his footnote for number 34, but like Delteil does not give the print a separate number in his catalogue).