François-Xavier Lalanne

François-Xavier Lalanne

1928 - 2008

Petit oiseau bleu à l'envol

signed in pencil F. Lalanne and dated 74 (lower left); inscribed T.P (lower right); numbered 3/12 (center right)

intaglio printed in colors on blue chine collé with an Arches wove support

plate: 3½ by 2 in. (8.9 by 5 cm.)

sheet: 10⅜ by 6¼ in. (26.5 by 16 cm.)

Executed in 1974; this impression is presumably one of 12 trial proofs.