Nov 09, 2021 - Sale 2587

Sale 2587 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LONG, RICHARD. Nile. Papers of River Muds. Folio, publisher's parchment-backed handmade paper-covered boards, red titling to front cover and spine; publisher's single sheet on handmade paper using pulp mixed with mud from the Murrumbidgee River in Australia laid in (numbered 76/172 on blank verso); original parchment-edged paper covered slipcase. Number 76 of 88 copies signed by the artist. The paper used in production was pulp mixed with mud from rivers around the world, producing pages in different shades of brown, from the following rivers: Nile, Umpqua, Hudson, Murrumbidgee, Mississippi, Indragoodby, Jordan, Condamine, Avon, Chitravathri, Amazon, Rhine, Guatiquia and Huang He, first sheet of each example titled in red with the respective river's name. Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1991