Mar 06, 2014 - Sale 2341

Sale 2341 - Lot 597

Price Realized: $ 13,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
HENRY MOORE
Shelter Sketch Book.

Portfolio with complete text, 7 signed color lithographs and 80 collotypes, 1967. 371x307 mm; 15 5/8x12 1/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

The deluxe édition de tête, with two specially designed lithographs for this set. Signed and numbered "23" in blue ink, on the justification page. Each lithograph signed and numbered XXIII/LXXV or 23/75 in pencil, lower margin. The color lithographs printed by J. E. Wolfensberger, Zurich. The collotypes printed by Ganymed Press, Berlin. Published by Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, and Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin.

Original parchment boxes and portfolio case. Superb impressions with strong colors. Cramer 80-86.