3407 - 4320 FINE ARTS - MODERN ART. PRINTS, DRAWINGS, WATERCOLOURS, PAINTINGS and SCULPTURES
= I.a. studies for illustrations for i.a. H. DE BALZAC, Contes Drolatiques (2x) and W. SHAKESPEARE, King Lear.
= SIGNED on frontcover in brush and black ink.
- Three (sm.) stains, twice in image.
= With an authentication stamp on verso, signed by W. Jos de Gruyter.
= Van der Wal L91/1 and 2. Published as "laureatenmap" for the Gelderland Grafiekprijs. One of 10 Roman numb. copies.
- Wood on bottom of tray cracked, sl. affecting image; tray rubbed/ dam.
= Edition Texte zur Kunst (Berlin) Nr. 89. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVII.
- Yellowed.
= Edition Texte zur Kunst (Berlin).
= Mostly drawings (sketches and variants) for the publication by François Mauriac, De Gaulle, published by Michèle Trinckvel (1990). Including 4 portraits of Charles de Gaulle (2x as elderly statesman). And with an incomplete copy of the publication (perhaps a proof).
- Two tiny tears in lower blank margin.
= With the collector's stamps of Emile Maeyens (Lugt 4178) and Albert Stöcker (Lugt 3872), both in red, in lower margin.
Idem. Compositie. The same print, on gold paper.
= Proofs of a print published in Der Sturm, XVI/ 1. Bex (Cat. Jozef Peeters (1895-1960), Antw., 1978), no.231. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.
= Title supplied on label on verso frame. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIX.
- Some inevitable vague handling creases; some very sm. tears in lower margin.
= Proof of the linocut published in Het Overzicht, no.17 (Sept. 1923), p.82. Verso w. stamp "Luxe-uitgave".
Idem. Raumkonstruktion 8. Linocut, 16x20,5 cm., printed in red on thin tracing paper.
- Frayed and w. sm. dam. in out blank margins. = Proof.
- Sl. yellowed; small tear in left blank margin; outer blank margins some creases (especially left blank margin).
- Very fine copy; ample margins.
= Bloch 1629; Baer 1645B/b; Cramer books 149. Provenance: Kunsthandel Juffermans. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XX.
- Sm. stain on the ''Acte premier'' leaf. Corners box sl. rubbed. Despite these minor defects, a very fine copy. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium.
= Bloch 1244-55; Cramer 140: ''To illustrate Le Cocu Magnifique, Picasso created scenes with characters from his own personal mythology. Thus the cuckold, or ''the horned one'', is associated with the Minotaur, or ''bull man''; in his old age, his lasciviousness becomes a farce without being amusing. Picasso's manner of staging Le Cocu magnifique, like Crommelynck's, is untrammeled and without repression''.
- Very fine copy. This lot is subject to 4% resale royalties ('droit de suite') over the total amount of hammerprice and buyer's premium.
= One of 15 copies on Chapelle paper. Bloch 1183-1192; Block (books) 129; Baer 1152-1161/B/b; Cramer books 136. Comprising: Sculpteur au travail; Peintre et modèle aux cheveux longs; Deux femmes au miroir; Peintre debout à son chevalet, avec un modèle; Sculpteur et sculpture; Peintre et modèle accoudé; Tête d'homme barbu. II; Nu accoudé; Sculpteur devant sa sellette, avec un specateur barbu and Sculpteur.
Picasso's illustrations for Sable mouvant, Pierre Reverdy's last poem, depict the artist working with his model, selected from the series entitled: Peintre et modèle which Picasso worked on from 1963 to 1965. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.