Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
LUCIEN CLERGUE (1934-2014)
Portfolio entitled Née de la Vague [Born of the Wave]. With 80 gravures and an original photograph of nude female figures posing in breaking waves as well as scenes of a beach in southern France. Heliogravures, the images measuring 6x9 to 12x19 inches (15.2x22.9 to 30.5x48.2 cm.), and the reverse; the silver print 11 1/2x9 1/2 inches (29.2x24.1 cm.), with Clergue's signature, in ink, on mount recto, enclosed in a folded sheet also with Clergue's signature, date, and inscription. Folio-sized clamshell box, blue cloth with a mounted photograph, light soiling and edgewear; the colophon with Clergue's signature and the edition notation 6/175; contents clean and bright. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 175. [Arles], 1968

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