L12160

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Lot 149
  • 149

Portfolio

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portfolio
  • One Cent Life
  • lithographs in colours
  • Overall size: circa 435 by 315mm; 17 1/8 by 12 3/8 in
The complete deluxe portfolio, 1964, comprising 62 lithographs by 28 artists mostly printed in colours, each signed in pencil, with title-page, text by Walasse Ting, and justification, this copy stamp numbered 39 from the special edition of 100 (aside from the unsigned edition of 2000), printed by Maurice Beaudet, Paris, published by Kornfeld, Berne, on wove paper, sheets loose in original white linen-covered boards and yellow linen-covered box

Condition

The full sheets, in good condition, occasional handling marks and creases, the contents page with short pencil ticks through the numbers, slight handling marks on the original white linen-covered boards, slight surface dirt on the yellow linen-covered box.
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Catalogue Note

The portfolio contains work by the following artists: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Sam Francis, James Rosenquist, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine, Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky and others