92
After Joan Miró
Le chien bleu (The Blue Dog)
Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000
Sold For
$32,500
Lot Details
1958-59
Etching and aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, the colors fresh.
I. 24 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (61.6 x 47.5 cm)
S. 32 3/4 x 25 in. (83.2 x 63.5 cm)
S. 32 3/4 x 25 in. (83.2 x 63.5 cm)
Signed, dated '5/12/58', annotated 'Bon à tirer pour 325 exemplaires' and printing annotations by Miró in pencil (the good-to-print proof impression, before the edition of 300 and 25 artist's proofs), printed by Atelier Crommelynck and published by Maeght, Paris, unframed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The “Prince of the printers,” as film director Jean-Michel Meurice called Piero.
Provenance
Literature