Nov 20, 2003 - Sale 1986

Sale 1986 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
GROSS, MIMI. Artists/writers: Montparnasse, Paris--nineteen twenties [title on colophon]. 27 portraits by Gross after photographs. Tall 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. (Berkeley Heights, 1985)

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Portraits of Kiki, Man Ray, Modigliani, Duchamp, Breton, Leger, Aragon, Brancusi, and their circle done by Gross during 1983-85. The colophon explains that the book is part of an ongoing project about the world of Montparnasse by BMK Productions in New Jersey. A limitation stating that 26 Signed and lettered copies made from Xerox copies by Gross herself is crossed out with "this is an artist's proof / Mimi Gross 1985" penned beneath. It is additionally inscribed "for Vera L."