Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 729

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?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 original color lithographs and 80 collotype illustrations after drawings. 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.