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Auction archive: Lot number 135

Matisse's rare suite of etchings for Joyce's Ulysses

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$33,750
Auction archive: Lot number 135

Matisse's rare suite of etchings for Joyce's Ulysses

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$33,750
Beschreibung:

Matisse's rare suite of etchings for Joyce's Ulysses The Print Club, 1935 MATISSE, Henri, (1869-1954). Six Signed Proofs of Original Etchings by Henri Matisse…Made to Serve as Illustrations for Six Episodes in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” which have their Counterparts in Homer’s “Odyssey.” New York: The Print Club, 1935. Rare suite of etchings, limited to only 150 sets, each plate signed in pencil by Matisse. Number 61 from an edition of 150. The plates depict episodes in the edition of James Joyce's Ulysses published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club and illustrated by Matisse. They comprise: “The Calypso Episode”; “Aeolus, Cave of the Winds”; “The Cyclops”; “The Episode of Nausicaä”; “The Circle Episode”; and “Symbolic Landscape: Ithaca.” Henri Matisse L’oeuvre gravé , 235-240; Slocum & Cahoon, 22. Broadsheets (415 x 320mm). 6 soft ground etchings printed on Arches vellum paper, each separated by original tissue guards in a folded wrapper bearing title, each signed by Matisse in pencil, numbered and titled in pencil. Publisher’s cloth portfolio (worn at tail of spine, a little browned and sunned at spine).

Auction archive: Lot number 135
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

Matisse's rare suite of etchings for Joyce's Ulysses The Print Club, 1935 MATISSE, Henri, (1869-1954). Six Signed Proofs of Original Etchings by Henri Matisse…Made to Serve as Illustrations for Six Episodes in James Joyce’s “Ulysses” which have their Counterparts in Homer’s “Odyssey.” New York: The Print Club, 1935. Rare suite of etchings, limited to only 150 sets, each plate signed in pencil by Matisse. Number 61 from an edition of 150. The plates depict episodes in the edition of James Joyce's Ulysses published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club and illustrated by Matisse. They comprise: “The Calypso Episode”; “Aeolus, Cave of the Winds”; “The Cyclops”; “The Episode of Nausicaä”; “The Circle Episode”; and “Symbolic Landscape: Ithaca.” Henri Matisse L’oeuvre gravé , 235-240; Slocum & Cahoon, 22. Broadsheets (415 x 320mm). 6 soft ground etchings printed on Arches vellum paper, each separated by original tissue guards in a folded wrapper bearing title, each signed by Matisse in pencil, numbered and titled in pencil. Publisher’s cloth portfolio (worn at tail of spine, a little browned and sunned at spine).

Auction archive: Lot number 135
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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