17 March- 15 April 2011

FRENCH IMPRESSIONISTS & THE SCHOOL OF PARIS

86 items | Peter Harrington

1. ARMAN. (FERNANDEZ, Armand.) Untitled abstract. 1959 [65365] Sheet size: 265 x 210 mm. Watercolour, crayon and rubber stamps on wove paper. Presented behind a contemporary 3.5 cm thick pespex block. Fine condition. £4,750 Signed and dated lower left by Arman.

2. BRAQUE, Georges. Nature Morte aux Fruits. (Still Life with Fruits.) Paris: Guy Spitzer, c. 1950 [64170] Colour collotype and stencil on Arches paper. Minor handling folds to upper right corner otherwise an excellent copy. Presented in a dark stained wood frame. Sheet size: 56 x 89 cm. Image size: 28.9 x 72.8 cm. £6,000 Edition of 250. Signed in pencil lower right by Braque, numbered lower left, with the publisher‟s blindstamp. This print is after an original oil painting by Braque created in 1927.

3. BRAQUE, Georges. Personage sur fond Rose. Paris: Editions Jean-Paul Loriot, 1962 [65422] Sheet size: 51 x 33 cm. Original lithograph in colours on Japan paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £4,000 Edition of 150 unnumbered. Signed in pencil lower right by Braque.

4. (BRAQUE, Georges) RUSSELL, John. G. Braque. With Eighty Illustrations Including Twenty-Four in Colour Selected by René Ben Sussan. London: The Phaidon Press, 1959 [65358] Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, grey endpapers. With the dust jacket. 80 plates. Minor bumps to corners. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket with faded spine panel. £85 First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author to Hamish Hamilton and his wife Yvonne on the front free endpaper, “To Jamie & Yvonne with love from John Russell, Christmas 1959”.

5. CEZANNE, Paul. Les Petits Baigneuses. (Also called Les Six Baigneurs.) (Small Bathers.) Paris. 1897 [65387] Sheet size: 347 x 445 cm. Image size: 220 x 290 cm. Original lithograph on thin Chine Volante paper. Original lithograph on thin Chine Volante paper. Excellent condition. £8,000 Trial proof in black and white aside from the edition of 100 in colour. First state of two, unsigned. Hand written in pencil at base of margin „Cezanne 46-L/72 Small Bathers Trial Proof‟. „Made in France‟ in blue rubber stamp to verso. Venturi 1156. Melot 8.

6. CHAGALL, Marc. The Bridge. 1910 [65533] Sheet size: 163 x 217 mm. Original drawing in ink, wash and crayon on wove paper. Presented in a silver wooden frame. Dry mounted onto board.. £24,000 Signed and dated Chagall 1910 lower left and titled “Bridge” in Cyrillic lower right. By decent of David McNeil the artist‟s son. A photo certificate from David McNeil accompanies this work.

7. CHAGALL, Marc. Young Woman with a Bouquet. 1926 [65540] Sheet size: 252 x 201 mm. Original drawing in watercolour, indian ink and pencil on thin card Presented in a black wooden frame. £37,500 Signed and dated Chagall 1926 lower right. By decent of David McNeil the artist‟s son. A photo certificate from David McNeil accompanies this work.

8. CHAGALL, Marc. The Butcher. Paris. c.1930 [65392] Sheet size: 224 x 283 mm. Original drawing in brush and ink on paper. Float mounted in a black wooden frame. Very good condition. £40,000 Signed in pen lower right by Chagall.

9. CHAGALL, Marc. Ma Vie. Translated by Bella Chagall. Paris, Jean Dejarnac, 1957 [62830] Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black, illustration onlay to front cover in green. No dust jacket issued. Illustrated throughout the text by Chagall with 31 early drawings and 14 reproduction etchings. A near fine copy. £250 First hardcover edition, first printing, limited to 5650 copies. Signed on the front free endpaper by Chagall. Originally issued in 1931.

10. CHAGALL, Marc. Menu pour une reception sur le Bateau Mouche. Paris: Teriade, 1959 [65465] Sheet size: 160 x 250 mm. Original lithograph on Arches paper. Presented in a silver wooden frame. Excellent condition. £10,000 Hors commerce aside from the edition of 75. Signed in pencil lower right by Chagall, initialled H. C. lower left. The Bateau Mouche was a pleasure boat on the River Seine on which dinner was served. Mourlot vol II 220.

11. CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. Text and Notes by Jean Leymarie. New York, George Brazillier; Monte Carlo, Andre Sauret, 1962 [60582] Tall quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, pictorial endpapers. With the dust jacket. 2 colour lithographs and colour illustrations by Marc Chagall throughout. Small area of sticker residue to front free fly-leaf. Top edge of upper board a little faded, contents toned. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and lightly rubbed jacket with a short closed tear to the upper panel. £1,250 First edition, first impression.

12. CHAGALL, Marc. Le Message Biblique. Preface by Jean Chatelain. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1972 [62841] Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt. With the dust jacket, wraparound band and original card slipcase. Illustrated with 70 illustrations and 1 original lithograph by Chagall. Fine in fine dust jacket. £175 First edition, first printing.

13. [CHAGALL, Marc] CAIN, Julien. The Lithographs of Chagall. Introduction by Marc Chagall. Notes and catalogue by Fernand Mourlot, Charles Sorlier. New York & Boston: George Braziller, Inc. Crown Publisher’s Inc. Boston Book and Art Shop, Inc. 1960 - 1986 [65294] 6 vols, folio. Original tan cloth, titles to front covers and spines in black. With the pictorial dust jackets. Profusely illustrated throughout and with 28 original lithographs by Chagall (21 in colour). A near fine set in minimally rubbed dust jackets with the exception of that of the fifth volume which is nicked and lightly creased to the top edge. £4,750 First editions, first printings. The catalogue raisonee of Chagall‟s lithographic work. A monumental feat of publishing taking more than two decades to complete.

14. (CHAGALL, Marc.) ELUARD, Paul. Le Dur Désir de Durer. Paris, Bordas, 1950 [62844] Quarto. Original white wrappers, titles to spine and illustration to front cover in black. With the printed glassine dust jacket. Illustrated throughout and with the loose original pochoir frontispiece reproduced by hand in the workshop of Daniel Jacomet under the control of Marc Chagall. A lovely copy with just a small chip to the glassine.. £1,000 Second edition. Limited to 1015 numbered copies. This copy additionally signed by Chagall on the half title. The first edition was published in 1946.

15. (CHAGALL, Marc.) LASSAIGNE, Jacques. Le Plafond De L‟ Opéra De Paris. Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1965 [62834] Quarto. Original red cloth. With the dust jacket, wraparound band and the original acetate. Illustrated by Marc Chagall, including one loose original lithograph frontispiece (Mourlot 434) housed in a folder and six color lithographs after Chagall by Sorlie, colour and monochrome illustrations throughout, and one double sided fold-out illustration to the rear pocket. Fine in fine dust jacket. £1,000 First edition, first printing. Signed by Chagall insided the folder housing the original lithograph.

16. (CHAGALL, Marc.) MEYER, Franz. Marc Chagall.. Translated by Philippe Jaccottet. Paris, Flamarrion, 1965 [62838] Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and illustration to front cover in black. With the dust jacket and original card slipcase. Illustrated throughout with 1307 illustrations, 53 tipped in colour plates. Near fine, dust jacket with small tear to head of spine. £600 First edition, first printing. Signed by Chagall on the half title.

17. (CHAGALL, Marc.) PRÉVERT, Jacques. Le Cirque D‟ Izis. Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1965 [62837] Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine and illustration to front cover in black. With the dust jacket and original printed acetate. Illustrated throughout with 76 photographies de Izis Bidermanas an with four original compositions by Chagall. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, acetate with large chips to the head. £1,000 First edition, first printing. Signed by Chagall on the half title. Together with the original prospectus with sample plate loosely inserted.

18. COCTEAU, Jean. Personage Fantastique. 1922 [65397] Variable sheet size: 307 x 223 mm. Image size 290 x 200 mm. Original ink and wash drawing on wove paper of different thicknesses glued together on a BFK Rives paper support. Presented in black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £7,500 Signed with initials and dated in pen lower right by Cocteau. The buyer acquires a certificate by Annie Guedras, the Cocteau expert, dated 25th August 2009, archive number 5047 D, made in Perigueux, France.

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19. COCTEAU, Jean. Dessins. Librarie Stock, Paris, 1924 [33029] Quarto. Rebound without the wrappers in contemporary black cloth, titles to spine gilt. 136 full page illustrations. Pages browning, spine faded boards rather marked. Very good. £2,250 First Trade Edition, the second printing overall. With the artist‟s magnificent signed presentation inscription to André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement in Europe: “Mon cher Breton – Je n'écris plus. C'est donc un lecteur malheureux qui tient à vous dire combien votre livre l'a enchanté, emporté loin de son mal. Croyez à ma profonde reconnaissance – Jean Cocteau. 1924”.

20. COCTEAU, Jean. A Call to Order. Written between the years 1918 and 1926 and including „Cock and Harlequin‟, „Professional Secrets‟ and other critical essays. Translated by Rollo H. Myers. London, Faber and Gwyer, 1926 [42768] Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. With a portrait of the author by himself. A superb copy in the very lightly chipped and tanned dust jacket with some invisible internal repair. £65 First UK Edition, First Impression. Not common in dust jacket.

21. COCTEAU, Jean. The Infernal Machine. A Play in Four Acts. English version and introductory essay by Carl Wildman. London, Oxford University Press, 1936 [41447] Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A superb copy in the nicked and lightly tanned dust jacket. £85 First English Edition, First Impression.

22. COCTEAU, Jean. Round the World Again in Eighty Days. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1937 [49160] Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine cocked, fugitive green dye mottled as usual, but a very nice copy in the lightly tanned dust jacket with small chips to head of spine panel. £275 First edition, first impression, published silmultaneously in the UK and France. Scarce in dust jacket.

23. COCTEAU, Jean. Harlequin. Paris: Galerie du Pont des Arts, 1955 [65375] Sheet size: 630 x 480 mm. Original lithograph in five colours on wove paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £1,800 Edition unknown. Signed in pencil lower right by Cocteau. Label to the verso reads: „The Paris American Cie, 2 Rue Bonaparte, Dant: 09.93, “No 7886”. This is a poster without text, another issue was also printed in different colours. Printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris.

24. COCTEAU, Jean. The Roman Blacksmith Soldier. 1956/7 [65467] Sheet size: 526 x 630 mm. Original drawing in black crayon on wove paper. £8,000 Signed in blue ink lower left by Cocteau. Drawing of a Roman soldier during the time of Christ for the decoration of a chapel. Certificate from Madame Annie Guedras, the acknowledged expert on Jean Cocteau, she cites a previous authenticity by Edward Dermit, “Legatair de Jean Cocteau”.

25. COCTEAU, Jean. Chevalier a la Tour. 1963 [65377] Image size: 230 x 180 mm. Original drawing in ink on wove paper. Presented in a silver and gilt wooden frame with vine carvings. Excellent condition. £7,000 Signed with initials. This is a scene from „Pelléas et Mélisande‟, a lyrical drame by Debussy for which Cocteau designed the scenery in 1926. The buyer acquires a certificate by Annie Gueras, the Jean Cocteau expert, dated 25th August 2009, archive number 5008 D, made in Périgueux, France.

26. DALI, Salvador. A Study of his Art-in-Jewels. The Collection of the Owen Cheatham Foundation. Foreword by A. Hyatt Mayor. Comments and captions by the Artist. Edited by Lida Livingston. Greenwich, The New York Graphic Society, 1959 [63354] Quarto. Original light grey mottled boards with black spine, titles to front cover and spine gilt. Housed in the original illustrated slipcase. Tipped in full page colour photographs by Philip Roedel. Loss of gilt to spine otherwise a clean bright copy. White slipcase rubbed and toned with some minor surface loss. £1,750 First edition, first printing. One of a hundred numbered copies signed by Salvador Dali.

27. DALI, Salvador. Dali. Edited by Max Gérard. Translated by Eleanor R. Morse. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1968 [51440] Quarto. Original illustrated boards, titles to spine in white. With the dust jacket. Edges lightly rubbed otherwise near fine in near fine dust jacket. £200 First UK Edition, first impression.

28. DALI, Salvador. Unicorn Dyonisiaque. Chicago: The Lincoln Mint, 1971 [65464] Diameter: 203 mm. Plate made of solid sterling silver. Presented in the original velvet lined box with Lincoln Mint certificate. Corners of the box are split. £900 Edition of 10000. Signed in the plate.

29. DALI, Salvador. Hidden Faces. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. [With the pamphlet] Postface to Hidden Faces, Comprising Objective Change and Reverie. London: Peter Owen, 1973 [60553] Octavo. Original vellum backed marbled boards, titles to spine and top edge gilt. In the publisher‟s red card slipcase. Spine very slightly faded but an exceptionally nice copy in the slipcase. £2,000 First edition thus, first printing, originally published in 1944. One of a limited edition of 100 copies with the additional pamphlet and signed by the author on the limitation leaf, this copy unnumbered and out of series with Dali‟s signed presentation inscription, “Pour Beatrice Musgrave”, who was the publisher‟s editorial director.

30. DALI, Salvador. Vittoria dell Uomo Primitivo. Le Cavalier. (Victory of Primitive Man.. The Horseman.) Paris: Grapholith, 1976 [65429] Sheet size: 485 x 650 mm. Original lithograph in colours on Arches paper. Presented float mounted in a black wooden frame. Fine condition. £1,500 Edition of 250. Signed lower right in pencil by Dali and numbered lower left. The total edition on various papers was 580. Field 76-2B p.179.

31. [DALI, Salvador.] SANDOZ, Maurice. The Maze. New York, Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc. 1945 [62440] Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and front cover gilt on a red ground. With a supplied dust jacket. 12 black and white illustrations and jacket art by Salvador Dali. Wear to spine tips, label lifted from pastedown, dust jacket lightly toned. £1,500 First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the artist on the half title „Bon Jour ... Dali, 1968.

32. DALI, Salvadore. Etude de couple assis. 1946 [65468] Image size: 228 x 203 mm. Original pencil drawing on paper. £9,500 An unsigned drawing on the back of a Walt Disney Studios story board. Sold with a certificate issued and signed by Robert Descharnes and Nicolas R. Descharnes, his head of archives. Robert Descharnes was entrusted by Dali with the administration of his intellectual property rights and is the sole authority to issue certificates of authenticity concerning Dali‟s works.

33. DALI, Salvadore. Hippofemme. (Horse Woman.) Paris: Editions de Francony, 1973 [65469] Image size: 583 x 390 mm. Sheet size 760 x 560 mm. Drypoint etching in colours on Japan paper Fine condition. £1,500 An artist‟s proof aside from the edition of 25 on Japan paper, 100 on Auvergne paper and 175 on Rives paper. Signed in pencil by Dali. Issued as one of four prints in the Femmes et Chevaux portfolio. Michler & Lopsinger 586, Field 73-4 B.

34. DALI, Salvadore. Le Triomphe. (The Triumph.) Paris: Editions de Francony, 1973 [65473] Sheet size 760 x 560 mm. Image size: 583 x 390 mm. Drypoint etching in colours on Japan paper Fine condition. £1,500 An artist‟s proof aside from the edition of 25 on Japan paper, 100 on Auvergne paper and 175 on Rives paper. Signed in pencil by Dali. Issued as one of four prints in the Femmes et Chevaux portfolio. Michler & Lopsinger 583, Field 73-4 D.

35. DALI, Salvadore. L‟Adoration. (Adaration.) Paris: Editions de Francony, 1973 [65474] Sheet size 760 x 560 mm. Image size: 583 x 390 mm. Drypoint etching in colours on Japan paper Fine condition. £1,500 An artist‟s proof aside from the edition of 25 on Japan paper, 100 on Auvergne paper and 175 on Rives paper. Signed in pencil by Dali. Issued as one of four prints in the Femmes et Chevaux portfolio. Michler & Lopsinger 585, Field 73-4 C.

36. DALI, Salvadore. Le . (Parade.) Paris: Editions de Francony, 1973 [65475] Sheet size 760 x 560 mm. Image size: 583 x 390 mm. Drypoint etching in colours on Japan paper Fine condition. £1,500 An artist‟s proof aside from the edition of 25 on Japan paper, 100 on Auvergne paper and 175 on Rives paper. Signed in pencil by Dali. Issued as one of four prints in the Femmes et Chevaux portfolio. Michler & Lopsinger 584, Field 73-4 A.

37. HELLEU, Paul César. Young Girl with a Hat. Paris: L. Fort, c.1910 [65476] Sheet size: 330 x 500 mm. Image size 200 x 340 mm. Drypoint etching on wove paper. Paper loss to the top edge and slight damage to other edges, not affecting the image. £1,250 Unknown edition. Signed in pencil lower right by Helleau. Publisher‟s name lower left. Printers name upper left. There is no catalogue raisonee on Helleu and it is not possible to give the exact title or edition. Many prints were pulled to order and no exact records may have been kept. Many images exist, but no so many of each subject, which would suggest the editions were quite small.

38. HELLEU, Paul César. Four Studies of the Face of the Artist‟s Daughter. Paris: c. 1910 [65478] Sheet size: 478 x 660 mm. Image size 340 x 540 mm. Drypoint etching in sanguine on wove paper. Paper loss to the top edge and slight damage to other edges, not affecting the image. £1,500 Unknown edition. Signed in pencil lower left by Helleau.

39. LEGER, Ferdinand; MIRO, Joan; RATTNER, Abraham; BORES, Francisco; THE FOUR ELEMENTS, Water, Air, Fire and Earth. Verve Revue Artistique et Littéraire. E. Tériade. 1937. [55996] Lithograph. Original colour. Very good condition. Mounted. Size: 26 x 35 cm. (10 x 14 inches) each £1,800 The Verve was an artistic and literary revue that was published four times a year in Paris.

40. LÉGER, Fernand. Elements Mecaniques. Paris: Galerie Maeght, c. 1960 [65372] Size: 760 x 560 mm. Photo etching on BFK Rives watermarked paper. Presented float mounted in a black wooden frame. Fine condition. £5,000 Edition of 300. Signed in pencil by Léger lower right and numbered lower left. Blindstamp of “Maeght Editeur” lower left. This print is after an original oil painting from 1918.

41. MAILLOL, Aristide. Bacchante. Paris. 1926 [65383] Sheet size: 290 x 168. Image size: 170 x 122 mm. Etching on laid paper. Presented in a silver wooden frame. Excellent condition. £1,500 Edition of 75. Signed in pencil lower right, and numbered lower left. Stamp to verso of Henri M. Petiet. Petiet bought the stock of Vollard after his untimely death and proceeded to become the leading print dealer in Paris during the post war era. Guerin 325.

42. MATISSE, Henri. Nu au Rocking Chair. Paris, 1913 [65479] Sheet size: 338 x 503 mm. Plate size: 243 x 179 mm. Original lithograph on simile Japon paper. Presented float mounted in a wooden gilt frame. Excellent condition. £8,000 Edition of 50 Signed and numbered in pen lower right by Matisse. Stamp to verso of Henri M. Petiet. Petiet bought the stock of Vollard after his untimely death and proceeded to become the leading print dealer in Paris during the post war era. Duthuit-Garnaud 410

43. MATISSE, Henri. Loulou (Brouty) au chapeau fleuri. Paris. 1914/15 [65380] Sheet size: 279 x 188 mm. Image size: 160 x 61 mm. Etching on Chine Appliqué paper supported on Velin Arches paper. Presented in a wooden silver frame. Excellent condition. £6,500 Edition of 15, one stage proof and one proof struck from the cancelled plate. Signed and numbered in pen lower right by Matisse. Stamp to verso of Henri M. Petiet. Petiet bought the stock of Vollard after his untimely death and proceeded to become the leading print dealer in Paris during the post war era. Duthuit-Garnaud 49.

44. MATISSE, Henri. Emma L. Masque. Paris, 1916/17 [65451] Sheet size: 280 x 185 mm. Image size: 90 x 65 mm. Etching on Chine Appliqué paper supported on Velin Arches paper. Presented float mounted in a wooden silver frame. Excellent condition. £6,000 Edition of 15, two stage proofs and two trial proofs. Signed and numbered in pen lower right by Matisse. Stamp to verso of Henri M. Petiet. Duthuit-Matisse 76.

45. MATISSE, Henri. Nu assis, chevalure Claire. Paris, 1922 [65456] Sheet size: 437 x 281 mm. Image size: 391 x 237 mm. Original lithograph on Japon paper. Presented in a wooden silver frame. Excellent condition. £12,500 Edition of 50, four trial proofs and ten trial proofs. Signed and numbered in pen lower left by Matisse. Stamp to verso of Henri M. Petiet. Petiet bought the stock of Vollard after his untimely death and proceeded to become the leading print dealer in Paris during the post war era. Duthuit-Matisse 422.

46. MATISSE, Henri. Plate 92 from Dix Danseuse. Paris, Galerie d’Art Contemporain, 1927 [65480] Sheet size: 325 x 500 mm. Original lithograph on Arches paper. Presented in a wooden silver frame. Excellent condition. £15,000 Edition of 130, 5 on chine paper 15 on Japon paper. Signed and numbered in pencil lower left by Matisse. Duthuit-Garnaud 484

47. (MATISSE, Henri) JOYCE, James. Ulysses. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1935 [41415] Folio. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt from a design by Le Roy Anderson in glassine jacket and publisher‟s tan card slipcase titled on spine. Illustrated by Henri Matisse. £23,500 Limited edition signed by both Joyce and Matisse this being number 724 of 1500 copies. Includes etchings depicting the Calypso, Aeolus, Cyclops, Nausicaa, Circe and Ithaca episodes. With an introduction by Stuart Gilbert who edited at Joyce‟s request the Odyssey Press edition of this novel, generally considered the most authorative text of the book.

48. MIRÓ, Joan. Cartones 2. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1965 [65484] Sheet size: 543 x 435 cm. Image size: 425 x 295. Original lithograph in colours on Arches watermarked vellum paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £4,500 Edition of 75. Signed in pencil lower right by Miro, numbered lower left. There was also an unsigned edition without margins on white wove paper for inclusion in the catalogue for the exhibition Cartones at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, October 1965. Maeght vol III 452.

49. MIRÓ, Joan. L‟ Ecartelee. Paris: Maeght Edituer, 1970 [65482] Sheet size: 645 x 905 cm. Image size: 470 x 650. Etching, aquatint and carborundum in colours on Mandeure rag paper. Presented in a white wooden frame. Excellent condition. £11,000 Hors-commerce aside from the edition of 75. Signed in pencil lower right by Miro. Dupin vol II 535.

50. MIRÓ, Joan. Ubu aux Baléares. (Ubu the Balearic.) Paris: Tériade éditeur, 1971 [65390] Sheet size: 505 x 665 cm Original lithograph on vélin d‟ Arches paper. Toning to the extreme edges. £2,500 Edition of 120. Signed in pencil lower centre by Miro and numbered lower right. Issued as one of twenty-three prints from the Ubu aux Baléares portfolio.

51. MIRO, Joan. (LEIRES, Michael, & Fernand Mourlot) Litografo (Lithographies). I - IV. Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafa, S. A., 1972-81 [50560] 4 vols. Quarto. Original cream cloth, titles to spines in black. With the illustrated dust jackets. Housed in the publisher‟s blue cloth slipcases with the Japanese supplements in blue wrappers. A fine set. £2,500 First Spanish edition. Miro‟s catalogue raisonné illustrated with 36 original lithographs including the dust jackets and 882 reproductions in full colour.

52. , Pablo. L‟ Italienne. Paris: Gallerie Paul Rosenberg, 1918/19 [65449] Sheet size: 260 x 190 mm. Image size: 149 x 100 mm. Etching on Arches paper. Presented in silver wooden frame. Fine condition. £11,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. Bloch 34

53. PICASSO, PABLO. La Lecture. (The Lesson) Paris: Daniel Henry Kahnweiller, Galerie Simon, 1925 [65508] Sheet size: 530 x 428 mm. Image size: 330 x 246. Original lithograph (crayon and scraper on stone) on Van Gelder watermarked paper. Presented in a black and silver wooden frame. Excellent condition. £8,500 Edition of 100. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. An image of Olga Khoklova, Picasso‟s first wife, reading to Paolo Picasso, their only child. Bloch 75.

54. PICASSO, Pablo. Verre et Compotier. (Glass and Fruit Bowl.) Paris: Editions Gallerie Rosenberg, 1925 [65531] Sheet size: 368 x 292 mm. Image size: 345 x 268 mm. Pochoir in eight colours on thin wove paper. Presented in a wooden silver stepped frame with stepped mounts. Laid down on board, very minor scuffing to centre of image. £12,000 Edition of 100. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso and numbered lower left. This print is after an original oil painted in 1922. It is illustrated in Zervos, vol. 4, page 176, no. 425.

55. PICASSO, Pablo. Le Modele Nu. Paris: Societe des Amateurs d’Art. 1927 [65428] Sheet size: 374 x 285 mm. Plate size: 278 x 194 mm. Etching on a kind of semiljapon paper. Presented float mounted in a black and silver frame. Excellent condition. £15,000 Edition of 40. Signed and numbered in pencil by Picasso lower left. 2nd published state. There was also ten proofs on japon and one hundred proofs on Arches, some of each were signed.

56. PICASSO, Pablo. Table des Eaux Fortes. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931 [65503] Sheet size: 325 x 245 mm. Plate size: 270 x 195 mm. Framed size: 600 x 510 mm. Etching on Rives watermarked paper. Presented in a silver and black frame. Excellent condition. £7,500 Edition of 70 on Japan Imperial and 340 on Rives with a number of proofs on each. This is a Hors Commerce aside from the edition. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso and initialled H C lower left. Printed by Louis Fort. Bloch 94. Baer 135. 2nd state 1.

57. PICASSO, Pablo. Peintre avec Deux Modeles. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931 [65525] Sheet size: 375 x 480 mm. Plate size: 196 x 278 mm. Framed size: 600 x 720 mm. Etching on Van Gelder Holland wove paper. Presented float mounted in a gilt and black frame. Excellent condition. £12,000 Edition of 99. Signed lower right and numbered lower left in brown ink (bistre) by Picasso. Printed by Louis Fort. Bloch 83; Baer 124.b.2.

58. PICASSO, Pablo. Femme Accoude, Sculpture et dos et tete barbue. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1933 [65458] Sheet size: 449 x 337 mm. Image size: 380 x 295 mm. Etching on small Montval fillegree paper. Presented float mounted in a silver and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £16,000 Edition of 260. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. There was also an edition of 50 on large Montval paper and three proofs on parchment. Bloch 34

59. PICASSO, Pablo. Le Banquet. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934 [65526] Sheet size: 280 x 275 mm. Image size: 220 x 147 mm. Framed size: 720 x 600 mm. Etching on Velin Arches paper, watermarked with a monogram. Excellent condition. £9,500 Edition of 150. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. Printed by Lacouriere, Paris. Issued as one of six prints in the Lysistrata portfolio. Baer 393. II B. B; Bloch 272; Cramer 24.

60. PICASSO, Pablo. du Sculpteur devant les Chevaux et Taureau. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1939 [60389] Sheet size: 337 x 449 mm. Plate size: 194 x 267 mm. Etching with aquatint on small Montval fillegree paper with Vollard watermark. Float mounted in a black and gilt frame. Fine condition. £13,500 Edition of 260. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. Bloch 166.

61. PICASSO, Pablo. Le Columbe Volant (a L‟arc-en-ciel). (The Flying in Rainbow.) 1952 [65412] Sheet size: 648 x 495 mm. Original lithograph in eight colours on proofing paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Soft crease to top right hand corner. £2,500 Unsigned and unnumbered impression outside the edition of 200 signed.

Bloch 712. Mourlot 214.

62. PICASSO, PABLO. Tete de Faune. 1953 [65505] Sheet size: 190 x 140 mm. Original ink drawing in black ink on wove paper. Presented in a black wooden frame glazed both sides. Excellent condition. £24,000 Signed and dated in ink below the image by Picasso. A certificate signed by , son of the artist accompanies this work. When the certificate was issued the paper suffered from foxing which has now been cleaned.

63. PICASSO, Pablo. Nude with Conductor. Editions Verve, 1954 [58962] Offset lithograph on Arches paper. Old tape to verso of upper sheet edge, pale age toning. Presented in a handmade white gold frame with UV perspex. Image size: 35 x 26 cm £5,000 Edition of 75. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered lower left by Picasso, Ed. Verve blindstamp to lower right. Plate from Verve no. 29-30. Small ownership rubber stamp of J. B. Tollofsynto to verso. This print is after an original ink and wash drawing.

64. PICASSO, PABLO. Tete de Faune. 1955 [65502] Sheet size: 113 x 144 mm. Original ink drawing in black ink on a Museé de Vallauris envelope with a letterpress print designed by Picasso of a horned ram‟s head for the Exhibition Vallauris. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £24,000 Signed and dated in ink upper right by Picasso. Museé de Vallauris shows a permanent collection of Picasso‟s works. A certificate signed by Maya Picasso, daughter of the artist accompanies this work.

65. PICASSO, Pablo. Moscow. Paris, 1957 [65523] Material size. 720 x 730 mm. Silkscreen in four colours on silk. Presented float mounted in a black wooden box frame. £3,500 Unkown edition. After the second world war Picasso was involved in the Peace Movement and a number of his works were published with his permission, some of which he donated to the movement to help raise funds. This particular work was made for the Global Festival of Youth held in Moscow. Gosslin. p.168.

66. PICASSO, Pablo. Femme au Balcon. (Woman on the Balcony.) Nice: Le Patriot, 1960 [65457] Sheet size: 765 x 560 mm. Original lithograph on Arches watermarked wove paper. Presented in a black and silver wooden frame. Excellent condition. £8,000 Edition of 145. Signed lower right in pencil by Picasso, numbered lower left. This was a poster for the exhibition “Picasso Oeuvre Grave” which was held at the Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice. January - March 1962. Mourlot 335. Rodrigo 098.

67. PICASSO, Pablo Madoura. Cannes: 1961 [65408] Sheet size: 320 x 330 mm. Image size: 100 x 220 mm. Linocut on Velin Arches paper. Presented in a black and brown wooden frame. Fine condition. £7,500 Edition of 100. Signed lower right in pencil by Picasso and numbered lower left. This was originally printed as an invitation with very narrow margins and unsigned, and was later made into a separate print of it‟s own with very large margins, signed and numbered. Bloch 1021. Baer 1270.b.a 2nd state.

68. PICASSO, Pablo. Femme Assise en Pyjama de Plage. (Seated Woman in Beach Pyjamas.) Paris: Berggruen, 1962 [62917] Linocut in brown and tan on Arches paper. Fine condition. Presented in a handmade gold leaf frame. Sheet size 54.5 x 43 cm. Image size 39 x 29.9 cm. £17,500 Artist‟s proof aside from the edition of 100. Signed in pencil lower right and inscribed „Epreuve d‟artiste‟ lower left by Picasso. This linocut was printed by Arnéra and was issued with the deluxe edition of Jacques Prévert's book, Diurnes. Bloch 1062; Baer 1276.

69. PICASSO, Pablo Portrait de Famille Ingresque IV. Paris: Gallerie Louis Leiris, 1963 [65411] Sheet size: 505 x 654 mm. Image size: 400 x 533 mm. Linocut in brown and black on Velin Arches paper. Presented in a black and gilt wooden frame. Fine condition. £25,000 Edition of 50, 4 trial proofs and 20 artist‟s proofs. Signed lower right in pencil by Picasso and numbered lower left. Bloch 1146. Baer 1337.B.a.

70. PICASSO, Pablo. Le Dejeuner sur L‟Herbe. (Luncheon on the Grass.) Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1963 [65459] Sheet size: 624 x 442 mm. Image size: 350 x 267 mm. Linocut in beige, brown and black on velin Arches paper. Presented in a bronze and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £27,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. Bloch 1096.

71. PICASSO, Pablo. Femme nue cuellant des fleurs. Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1963 [65461] Sheet size: 624 x 442 mm. Image size: 350 x 267 mm. Linocut in beige, brown and black on velin Arches paper. Presented in a bronze and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £27,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. Bloch 1092.

72. PICASSO, Pablo. Portrait de en Carmen. Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1963 [65462] Sheet size: 624 x 442 mm. Image size: 350 x 270 mm. Linocut in beige, brown and black on velin Arches paper. Presented float mounted in a black and gilt wooden frame. Excellent condition. £45,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. There was also twenty proofs on the same paper. Bloch 1092.

73. PICASSO, Pablo. Les Amies. Paris: Gallerie Louis Leiris, 1965 [65463] Image size: 330 x 232 mm. Etching on Richard de Bas paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £8,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. There was also fifteen artist‟s proofs and two proofs on velin. Bloch 1202.

74. PICASSO, Pablo. Peintre et Modele avec une Grande Toile. Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1965 [65529] Sheet size: 375 x 480 mm. Plate size: 220 x 313 mm. Etching, aquatint and drypoint on Richard de Bas paper. Presented in a wooden gilt frame. Excellent condition. £12,000 Edition of 50 and 15 artist‟s proofs. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso and numbered lower left. Printed by Crommelynck freres. Bloch 83; Baer 124.b.2.

75. PICASSO, Pablo. Exposed Old and Young Men with Seven Figures. Paris: Gallerie Louis Leiris, 1968 [65416] Sheet size: 643 x 566 mm. Plate size: 418 x 497 mm. Etching on Rives paper. Presented in a black and gilt frame. Fine condition. £16,000 Edition of 50 and 17 artist‟s proofs. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. Bloch 1615.

76. PICASSO, Pablo. Dessins. 27.3.66 - 15.3.68. Preface by René Char. Text by Charles Feld. Paris: Editions Cercle D’Art, 1969 [65085] Quarto. Original illustrated cloth, titles to front cover in blue. Housed in a calf and hessian covered clamshell box with perspex window to the cover, titles to spine gilt. Together with the original lithograph on heavy wove paper signed and numbered in pencil by Picasso. Housed in the card folder with paper label pasted to cover. All housed together in the original packing box. Minor foxing to the hessian on the cover of the clamshell box and some age toning to the card folder. A near fine copy. £9,500 Limited to 125 numbered copies and 25 Hors Commerce. The lithograph is titled “Man with Cane Viewing Nude.” Bloch B. 1464

77. PICASSO, Pablo. Visiteur avec son Chien Chez une Femme avec la Celestine. Paris: Gallerie Louis Leiris, 1969 [65417] Sheet size: 226 x 334.5 mm. Plate size: 148 x 208 mm. Etching on Rives paper. Presented in a black and gilt frame. Fine condition. £9,000 Edition of 50 and 17 artist‟s proofs. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. Bloch 1672

78. PICASSO, Pablo. Seated Man Smoking Pipe. Woman and Dog in Soft Focus. Paris. Galerie Louis Leiris. 1969 [65504] Sheet size: 250 x 325 mm. Plate size: 88 x 117. Framed size: 505 x 540 mm. Etching, sugar lift aquatint and drypoint on Rives paper. Presented in a silver and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £8,500 Edition of 50 and 17 artist‟s proofs. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. An artist‟s proof from the collection of with her stamp to the verso. Published by Crommelynck Freres. B. Baer (Volume VI). Bloch 1750.

79. PICASSO, Pablo. Vieux Peintre avec une Adolescente. Paris: Gallerie Louis Leiris, 1969 [65507] Sheet size: 320 x 250 mm. Image size: 115 x 88 mm. Etching on Rives paper. Presented float mounted in a silver and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £8,500 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso, numbered lower left. Printed by Crommelynck. Freres.

80. PICASSO, Pablo. Scene Pastorale: Amoureux, Flutiste et Manger de Pasteque. Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1969 [65518] Image size: 173 x 220 mm. Etching on Rives paper. Presented in a black and gilt frame. Two repaired tears to lower margin far from the image, hidden by the mount. £9,000 Edition of 50. Signed in pencil lower right by Picasso. Prirnted by Crommelynck Freres. B. Baer (Volume VI). 1725.Bb.1. Bloch 1709

81. PICASSO, Pablo. Enlevement, a pied, avec la Celestine. (Woman abducted on foot with Procuress.) Paris: Galerie Louis Leiris, 1969 [65521] Image size 59 x 84 cm. Aquatint on Rives paper. Presented in a silver and black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £7,750 Edition of 50 and 17 proofs. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered lower left. Printed by Crommelynck Freres. B. Baer (Volume VI) 1643. Bb. 1; Bloch 1627; Cramer 149.

82. (PICASSO, Pablo) ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. A New Version By Gilbert Seldes. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1934 [20931] Quarto, pp. 117 + [i]. Original pictorial patterned boards, titles to spine and front cover, complete with the original unprinted glassine dust jacket and original blue paper covered slip case and chemise. Housed in a specially made blue cloth drop down box. Illustrated by . Signed on the limitation page by Pablo Picasso. A fine copy in the slightly worn glassine and somewhat faded plain card slipcase. £5,750 Limited Edition of 1,500 numbered copies of which this copy is number 978. Rare in complete glassine wrapper. Only a portion of the edition was signed by the artist.

83. RENOIR, Pierre Auguste. Portrait of Richard Wagner. Paris: Ambrose Vollard, c. 1900 [65394] Sheet size: 651 x 500 mm. Image size: 435 x 320 mm. Original lithograph on Arches paper. Presented in a black wooden frame. Excellent condition. £3,000 Edition of 100 and several on Japan. Unsigned. Printed in Paris by August Clot. Melot r.33, Delteil 33.

84. RENOIR, Pierre Auguste. Study for a Woman Bathing. Paris: Ambrose Vollard, c. 1906 [65436] Sheet size: 327 x 247 mm. Image size: 223 x 165 mm. Etching on Arches paper. Presented in a silver wooden frame. Some trimming and paper loss to right hand margin, some skimming to the margins of the verso from previous hinging. £5,500 Edition of 900 and 100 on Japan Shidzuoka paper. Stamped signed lower right. Stella 16, Delteil 16.

85. RENOIR, Pierre Auguste. L‟enfant au Biscuit. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, c. 1906 [65516] Sheet size: 630 x 470 mm. Image size: 320 x 270 mm. Original lithograph in five colours on Arches Ingres laid paper. Presented in a silver wooden frame. £13,000 Edition of 100 and some trial proofs. Unsigned and unnumbered. The final state was in nine colours made from ten stones, trial proofs exist, such as this print, with different number of colours. Delteil 31.

86. UTRILLO, Maurice. Le Moulin de la Galette. Paris: Edmound Frapier, Galerie des Peintres Graveurs. 1924 [65495] Sheet size: 325 x 495 mm. Original lithograph on Arches watermarked paper. Presented in a black and gilt frame. Excellent condition. £6,750 A proof outside the edition of 25. Signed in pencil lower right by Utrillo.