Apr 11, 2024 - Sale 2665

Sale 2665 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 5,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Szyk, Arthur (1894-1951)
Gustave Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine.

Paris: Societé d'Éditions et de Librairie Henri Reynaud, 1926.

Presentation copy of the deluxe issue, No. 21 of 30 copies on arches that include a signed original drawing, octavo, illustrated with twenty pochoir plates with remarques by Szyk with tissue guards and original printed wrappers with glassine overwrap; with an original drawing laid in and an additional suite of drawings in original folder, copper screens in original paper wrapper (tears) with pictorial paper label, as issued; housed in cloth-backed folder within cloth chemise and slipcase, inscribed on the half-title: "To George Gold, with Love, Arthur Szyk, New Canaan, 1947."