Nov 19, 2020 - Sale 2552

Sale 2552 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery.

Portfolio with complete text, recording by Helen Vendler and one offset lithograph, 4 lithographs, one woodcut, one soft-ground etching with aquatint and one photogravure, 1984. Each 450 mm; 18 inches (diameter, sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

Numbered 158/175 in pencil on the justification page. Each print signed and some numbered 158/175 in pencil, lower margin. Signed by Ashbery and Andrew Hoyem of Arion Press in pencil on the introductory pages. Printed by Magnolia Editions, Oakland, Hampton Editions, Ltd., Sag Harbor, Arion Press, San Francisco, Siena Studio, New York, Crommelynck, Paris, and ULAE, West Islip. Published by Arion Press, San Francisco. Original cylindrical stainless steel canister with convex mirror. Very good impressions.

Includes prints by AVEDON, WILLEM DE KOONING, ELAINE DE KOONING, DINE, FREILICHER, KATZ, KITAJ and RIVERS.