Sep 24, 2015 - Sale 2392

Sale 2392 - Lot 559

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JOAN MIRÓ
Anti-Platon.

Color aquatint and etching on Japon nacré and aquatint and etching on Japon nacré, 2 impressions, 1951-62. Both 128x90 mm; 5x3 1/2 inches, full margins. Both numbered 14/15 in pencil, lower left. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Paris. Published by Maeght, Paris. Both from the same-titled suite. Superb, richly-inked impressions.

Miró first produced this plate in 1951 as a deluxe greeting card for Galerie Maeght, Paris, and later reworked it, adding figural etchings, in 1962 to illustrate a deluxe edition of Anti-Platon by Yves Bonnefoy. Dupin 74; Cramer 77.