Oct 29, 2014 - Sale 2363

Sale 2363 - Lot 459

Price Realized: $ 75,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 60,000 - $ 90,000
JOAN MIRÓ
Passage de l'Égyptiènne by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.

Portfolio with 26 aquatints, 25 printed in colors (including one pencil-signed color aquatint and etching frontispiece, 7 color aquatints with etching, one aquatint on the front cover, an additional suite of 4 pencil-signed color aquatints with etching on Japon nacré and an additional suite of 13 pencil-signed color aquatints with etching on Japon nacré), 1985. 600x425 mm; 23 3/4x16 5/8 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

The deluxe edition of 15 with the additional suite of 13 pencil-signed color aquatints with etching on Japon nacré, from a total edition of 146. Signed by Miró and Mandiargues in pencil and numbered 24, on the justification page. The 18 color aquatints with etching each signed by Miró in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Atelier Morsang, Paris. Published by Dutrou, Paris. Original beige linen portfolio. Superb impressions with vibrant colors. Cramer 257.