Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
[MIRÓ, JOAN]
LAFONT, MARYSE and JOAN MIRÓ, illustrator. Obscur laurier. Paris: Guy Levis Mano, 1962. One of 200 copies on Rives, number 17, press-numbered. Publisher's printed wrappers in glassine. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (24 x 16.5 cm); 40 pp. text, illustrated by Joan Miro with one pencil signed and numbered colored etching with aquatint (printed by Maeght); this copy with a second etching with aquatint laid-in, this from Brossa Cop des Poma, the example folded, signed in pencil and numbered 80 from the edition of 90. A fine copy externally, internally fresh but a small tape trace to the verso of the plate and a preliminary blank, and on the Cop de Poma plate mentioned above.
Obscur Laurier is Cramer Books 75; the plate from Cop de Poma is plate 2 from Cramer 78 (i.e. Dupin 301), this one of the (separately issued?) examples without margins, fully signed and numbered.
Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
[MIRÓ, JOAN]
LAFONT, MARYSE and JOAN MIRÓ, illustrator. Obscur laurier. Paris: Guy Levis Mano, 1962. One of 200 copies on Rives, number 17, press-numbered. Publisher's printed wrappers in glassine. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (24 x 16.5 cm); 40 pp. text, illustrated by Joan Miro with one pencil signed and numbered colored etching with aquatint (printed by Maeght); this copy with a second etching with aquatint laid-in, this from Brossa Cop des Poma, the example folded, signed in pencil and numbered 80 from the edition of 90. A fine copy externally, internally fresh but a small tape trace to the verso of the plate and a preliminary blank, and on the Cop de Poma plate mentioned above.
Obscur Laurier is Cramer Books 75; the plate from Cop de Poma is plate 2 from Cramer 78 (i.e. Dupin 301), this one of the (separately issued?) examples without margins, fully signed and numbered.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023