JOAN MIRÓ | Le Caissier (D. 487)

Aquatint and etching printed in colors with carborundum, 1969, signed in pencil and inscribed 'H.C.', an hors commerce impression aside from the numbered edition of 75, on Mandeure rag paper, printed and published by Maeght, Paris, framed

The print is in generally good condition, the full sheet (Dupin calls for sheet dimensions of 900 by 690 mm). Time-stain at the extreme sheet edges and some pale fox marks, mostly in the left half of the sheet. An occasional soft inconspicuous crease near the sheet edges and a few spots of pale surface soiling, including in the yellow at center. (A few tiny tears in the deckle at right.) The verso with a some fox marks and small spots of discoloration.
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