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Sanyu

Illustrations for Les Poèmes de T'ao Tsien

Estimate
HK$40,000 - 60,000
€4,700 - 7,100
$5,100 - 7,700
HK$38,100
Lot Details
The complete set of three etchings, on Arches paper, with full margins, with poems in French (translated from Chinese by Liang Tsong Tai), preface by Paul Valéry, and additional portrait of the poet after Hwang Shen on the frontispiece, bound (as issued), contained in a later red fabric-covered slipcase.
1930
book 33 x 25.5 x 1.2 cm (12 7/8 x 10 x 1/2 in.)
This work is number 143 from an edition of 290 (there were also 10 on Hollande van Gelder in Roman numerals and 6 on Japan), published by Éditions Lemarget, Paris, with a later slipcase.

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