Lot 213
  • 213

Portfolio

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Portfolio
  • Hommage a Picasso
  • prints
  • most sheets: approx. 753 by 565mm 29 3/8 by 22 1/4 in; the largest sheet: 1040 by 700mm 41 by 27 1/2 in
  • the planchest overall: 645 by 863 by 381mm 25 5/8 by 34 by 15in
The complete portfolio, 1973, comprising 69 prints in six volumes, including lithographs, etchings, screenprints, and aquatints on various papers and one on mirror-polished steel, with the additional portfolio America's hommage à Picasso, each portfolio with title page, text, lists of plates and justification, each justification signed and numbered 21/90, the sheets signed and numbered 21/90, some dated or titled, published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin and Pantheon Press, Rome, contained loose (as issued) in the original six red linen-covered portfolio cases in the red planchest, the Joe Tilson, Allen Jones, and Enrico Raj contained in the original red linen-covered tubes, the Pistoletto and Nicholas Krushenick in the original cardboard, the Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg in the larger original red linen-covered portfolio case

Volume 1 – Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Lipchitz, Joan Miro, Cornielle, Paul Bury, Robert Matta, Fritz Wotruba, Gaicomo Manzu, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gorge Castilo



Volume 2 – Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Heinz Mack, R. B.Kitaj, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Cy Twombly, Enrico Baj, Nicholas Krushenick, Shusaku Arakawa, Hans Bellmer, Jan Voss



Volume 3 – Eduardo Chillida, Joseph Beuys, Linn Chadwick, Christo, Alan Davie, Pierre Alinchinsky, HAP Grieshaber, André Masson, Jiří Kolář, Frank Stella, Stefan Wewerka



Volume 4 – Roy Lichtenstein, Edouard Pignon, Max Bill, Hervé Télémaque, Robert Motherwell, Walasse Ting, Jim Dine, Joe Tilson, Allen Jones, Emil Schuhmacher, Henry Moore



Volume 5 – Pistoletto, Arman, Öyvind Fahlström, Kumi Sugai, Wilfredo Lam, Donald Judd, Renato Guttuso, Hans Hartung, Alfred Hrdlicka, Bernard Schultze, Antoni Tapies, Günther Uecker, Gerhard Altenbourg, Victor Vasarely



AP – Larry Rivers, Allan D’Arcangelo, Robert Indiana, Walter De Maria, James Rosenquist, Peter Palermo, Claes Oldenburg, Dan Flavin, Ernest Trova, Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol

Condition

The full sheets, in good condition, the title pages, text, lists of plates and justifications with occasional soft creases towards sheet edges, the Enrico Baj with pale foxing in margins and some felt fibreds in the margins, some very soft rolling creases. The portfolio boxes with slight surface soiling, and slight wear.
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