GOREY EDWARD Au Secours

Sale 2387 - Lot 231

Price Realized: $ 2,750

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

GOREY, EDWARD. Au Secours. Hand-pulled collograph, on Arches paper. 318x216 mm; 12 1/2x8 1/2 inches, image, numbered 13/50 and signed by Gorey, in pencil, lower margin. Matted and framed. [New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1985]

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the second scarcest of gorey's prints. Of the 50 prints intended for the edition, only 17 were actually pulled and signed by Gorey as the original plate was damaged. The image, in variously textured shades of grey, shows a ghosted image of a leaping Figbash toward a star-like object along the upper portion of the plate, with the type "Au Secours" (Help) lettered backwards amidst an image of a flower in the foreground below. It is the second rarest of all Gorey's prints after "Montage of Found Objects in Color" of which only 9 of its inteded 50 prints were created and signed.