Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WITH 2 ORIGINAL PRINTS SCHIELE, EGON. A Sketchbook. 2 volumes. Facsimile sketchbook reproduced from Schiele's original. Small 8vo, facsimile sketchbook in plain black coated board with trimmed edges painted red; contains two handprints and numerous reproductions of Schiele's sketchook; text volume is gilt-lettered deep rose cloth; both laid into 1/4 gilt-lettered folding box, edges rubbed. New York: Johannes Press, 1967
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one of only fifty copies with 2 handprints by schiele from his original rubber stencils cut in 1916, titled "Head of Man" and "Two Figures" published for the first time in this work under the supervision of artist Will Barnett and numbered and initialed by editor Otto Kallir. Though the colophon states that the fifty copies with the prints are lettered, this set is roman-numbered 35; the total edition was 500.