May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 428

Price Realized: $ 12,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
PORTFOLIO
Estampes by Robert Rey.

Portfolio with complete text and 12 color wood engravings and the décomposition color proof of the Denoyer wood engraving, 1950. 465x363 mm; 18 3/8x14 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued with the original paper wrappers.

One of the 100 copies numbered in Roman numerals reserved for France, aside from the edition of 150. Each print signed and by the artists and Rey and numbered "XCII/C" in pencil, lower margin. The prints made by Gérard Angiolini, Paris. Printed by Coulouma, Paris. Published by L'Image Litteraire, Nice, and Rafael Finelli-Feugère, New York. Each print preceded by text signed by the authors in blue ink. Full ribbed silk portfolio with a composition after Chagall in a sculpted frame on the cover. Very good impressions with vibrant colors

Includes prints after BRAQUE, BRIANCHON, CHAGALL, DESNOYER, R. DUFY, LAURENCIN, MATISSE, PICASSO, UTRILLO, VAN DONGEN, VLAMINCK and WAROQUIER.