After Joan Miró - Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection New York Tuesday, April 18, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Piero Crommelynck Collection, Paris
    (inkstamp on reverse)

  • Literature

    Maeght 1714

  • Catalogue Essay

    The “Prince of the printers,” as film director Jean-Michel Meurice called Piero.

92

Le chien bleu (The Blue Dog)

1958-59
Etching and aquatint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins, the colors fresh.
I. 24 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (61.6 x 47.5 cm)
S. 32 3/4 x 25 in. (83.2 x 63.5 cm)

Signed, dated '5/12/58', annotated 'Bon à tirer pour 325 exemplaires' and printing annotations by Miró in pencil (the good-to-print proof impression, before the edition of 300 and 25 artist's proofs), printed by Atelier Crommelynck and published by Maeght, Paris, unframed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $32,500

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Editions and Works on Paper Including Works from the Piero Crommelynck Collection

New York Auction 18 April 2017