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Alexandra Exter

Illustrated manuscript of Aeschylus's Les Sept contre Thèbes (Seven Against Thebes)

Lot Closed

March 16, 02:50 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alexandra Exter

1884 - 1949


Illustrated Manuscript of Aeschylus's Les Sept contre Thèbes (Seven Against Thebes), with sixteen pages illustrated by Alexandra Exter, calligraphy by Manuel Pelaez

gouache and calligraphy in ink on paper

33 by 25 cm. 13 by 9⅞ in.

Sotheby's, New York, 2 June 1995, lot 2

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner