Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,820
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MIRÓ, JOAN; and HIRTZ, LISE. Il était une petite pie. 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe. 8 color pochoirs after drawings by Miró, colored by Jean Saudé on Arches paper. Folio, loose as issued in grey cloth-bound boards printed in green and black; cloth ties; custom gilt-lettered black polished calf clamshell box, light surface wear. Overall a near-fine copy. (Paris): Jeanne Bucher, 1928

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first edition of miró's first illustrated book. number 188 of 300 copies. Cramer, Joan Miró, les livres illustrés, hors-catalogue n° 1. The drawings resemble his surrealist paintings of abstract pictorial signs and pure color. Hirtz was the editor of Le Phare deNeuilly, which frequently published articles relating to surrealism. She was married to Paul Deharme, a friend of Robert Desnos and close to the surrealist movement. The gallery of publisher Jeanne Bucher was an artistic center of cubism, surrealism, and abstraction in Paris from the 1920s-40s.