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Modern & Contemporary Editions
9:00 AM PT - Nov 15th, 2009

 

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Phillips de Pury & Company

 

450 West 15th Street

New York, NY 10011
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Maison close: Le Chocolat II, 1955

Aquatint, etching, engraving and drypoint, on Arches paper, with full margins, I. 17 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (45.1 x 64.8 cm); S. 22 5/8 x 30 1/8 in. (57.5 x 76.5 cm), the first state of three, one of 7 rare proof impressions (there were 7 impressions of the first and second states and 6 impressions of the third state, there was no edition), printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris, soiling in the margins, pale mat staining, scattered pale foxmarks in the margins (primarily at the edges), otherwise in very good condition, framed.

LITERATURE Brigitte Baer 922 (this example illustrated); not in Georges Bloch

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