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Masters of Modern Printmaking
This exceptional collection presents an exquisite survey of twentieth-century graphic art, bringing together works by the foremost figures of modernism and postwar innovation ? Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dal?, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, and their contemporaries. The group captures the evolution of printmaking as a vital medium of artistic expression, uniting etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and silkscreens that reflect the aesthetic dynamism and experimentation of the modern era. Drawn from notable folios and limited editions such as Derri?re le Miroir, Toros y Toreros, La Divine Com?die, and Sunday B. Morning, these works exemplify the technical mastery and conceptual breadth of their creators. Picasso?s supple line and lyrical inventiveness find elegant expression in his heliogravures and lithographs, while Chagall?s dreamlike color harmonies evoke the poetics of memory and folklore. Dal??s surreal vision manifests in vibrant woodcuts illustrating Dante?s Inferno and Purgatorio, executed with the precision of Renaissance engraving yet animated by a distinctly modern imagination. Warhol?s Sunday B. Morning silkscreens channel the artist?s fascination with repetition and celebrity, transforming the print medium into an emblem of contemporary culture.
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0001: Max Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Limited Edition LithographEst. $3,500-$4,900Lot Passed
0002: Raoul Ubac, Composition, Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0003: Joan Miro, Composition (Cramer 112; Mourlot 439-442), Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,500-$2,100Lot Passed
0004: Pablo Picasso, La Bonne dans l'Atelier de Sculpture, Suite Vollard, Fac-simile Signed, LimitedEst. $4,300-$6,000Lot Passed
0005: Robert Rauschenberg, Wart I, Art in America, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0006: Salvador Dali, Le Chevalier Chretien, Les Chevaux de Dali, Fac-simile Signed, Limited EditionEst. $1,400-$1,900Lot Passed
0007: Joan Miro, England, from Miro as Sculptor, Limited Edition Lithograph, 1974Est. $1,400-$1,900Lot Passed
0008: Willem de Kooning, Composition, Poems, Limited Edition LithographEst. $10,000-$14,000Lot Passed
0009: Roberto Matta, Composition (Sabatier 393), Centre Noeuds, Limited Edition EtchingEst. $3,500-$4,900Lot Passed
0010: Joan Miro, Composition, (Cramer 160; Mourlot 857), Joan Miro Lithographs, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0011: Victor Vasarely, Composition, Ondulatoires, Limited Edition HeliogravureEst. $500-$700Lot Passed
0013: Alexander Calder, Composition, Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0014: Emile Bernard, Composition (Morane, No. 100), Les Petites Fleurs de St. Francoise, Limited EditionEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0015: Andy Warhol, Chanel No. 5, Official Edition Chanel Ltd. Advertising Campaign Lithograph, 1997Est. $900-$1,200Lot Passed
0016: Alexander Calder, Porc qui pique, Stabiles, Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0018: Henri Matisse, Serie E, var. 7 (Duthuit 9), Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et variations, LimitedEst. $1,000-$1,400Lot Passed
0019: Henri Matisse, Serie L, var. 15 (Duthuit 9), Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et variations, LimitedEst. $1,000-$1,400Lot Passed
0020: Pablo Picasso, Composition (Bloch 1276; Czwiklitzer 23), Toros y Toreros, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
0021: Henri Matisse, Composition (Dutel 3), Dessins de Henri-Matisse, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,300-$1,800Lot Passed
0022: Jean Cocteau, Untitled, from Recipes for a Friend, illustrations by Jean Cocteau, Limited EditionEst. $1,000-$1,400Lot Passed
0023: Pablo Picasso, Le bœuf: Visage d'homme (Cramer 84; Johnson/Stein 77), 40 dessins de Picasso enEst. $1,300-$1,800Lot Passed
0024: Pierre Bonnard, Untitled, from Correspondances, Limited Edition Lithograph, 1944Est. $1,000-$1,300Lot Passed
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