Sale 2799
New York
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28 January 2014
Price realised
USD 509,000
Estimate
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) Group with sleeping woman (D. 277; H. 279) lithograph, circa 1822, on thin wove paper, without watermark, a good impression of this exceptionally rare print (one of four known, the other three being in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Staatliches Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), inscribed Goya and 9 in pencil, probably by another hand, with losses at the sheet corners, small repaired splits at the upper and lower edges, a small brown stain towards the lower left corner S. 5¾ x 6 7/8 in. (147 x 175 mm.)
Provenance
Cristobel Ferriz (according to an inscription on the mount) Maurice Pereire, Paris (20th century, France) (L. 3509); probably Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 March 1961, lot 13, (described as Le Sommeil...Lithographie originale. Belle épreuve reproduite dans l'ouvrage de Delteil...De la plus grande rareté.) (Sold 29.000 NF). With R. H. Zinser, Forest Hills, New York (not in Lugt).
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