PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

René Char: Le marteau sans maître

Price realised GBP 68,750
Estimate
GBP 30,000 – GBP 50,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)

René Char: Le marteau sans maître

Price realised GBP 68,750
Closed: 18 Sep 2019
Price realised GBP 68,750
Closed: 18 Sep 2019
Details
JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983)
René Char: Le marteau sans maître
the complete set of 26 etchings and aquatints in colours, 1976, on Japon nacré paper, each signed in pencil, inscribed H.C 5/6, an hors commerce copy aside from the deluxe edition of fifty without text (there was also a text edition of 125 and 25 hors commerce copies), published by Le Vent d'Arles, Paris, the full sheets, deckle edges below and at right, in very good condition, loose in the original grey paper-covered boards with red leather spine, with the title embossed in black on the front (portfolio)
Plates 285 x 230 mm., Sheets 440 x 330 mm. (15 plates)
Plates, Sheets 445 x 660 mm. (11 plates)
Portfolio 680 x 460 mm.

Provenance
René Char (1907-1988), Paris.
Bernard Moustrou (d. 1991), Avignon.
Acquired from the above by the present owners.
Literature
Dupin 944-969; Cramer 216
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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