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The original set of three volumes of Karel Appel's Circus was contained in a wooden polychrome cart. This is not included in the present lot.
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Circus (Volumes I, II and III)
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Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Circus (Volumes I, II and III)
woodengravings printed in colours with embossing, 1978, the complete set of three volumes comprising ten prints each, on Arches, signed in white crayon and numbered IV/XX from twenty artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 130 and one, printed to the edges of the sheets, with text by Frederic de Towarnicki, each volume with text, titlepage and the justification numbered IV/XX, printed by Arts Litho, Paris and published by ABCD, Paris, 1978, the edges of the boxes worn, with surface dirt and related staining, the unframed prints slightly discoloured, the justification page of box three severely discoloured and stained, nine prints framed, all further twenty-one loose with interleaving tissue in the titled cut-out paperwrappers, with the three original titled linen-covered boxes
S. 760 x 560 mm. (each) (3)
Circus (Volumes I, II and III)
woodengravings printed in colours with embossing, 1978, the complete set of three volumes comprising ten prints each, on Arches, signed in white crayon and numbered IV/XX from twenty artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 130 and one, printed to the edges of the sheets, with text by Frederic de Towarnicki, each volume with text, titlepage and the justification numbered IV/XX, printed by Arts Litho, Paris and published by ABCD, Paris, 1978, the edges of the boxes worn, with surface dirt and related staining, the unframed prints slightly discoloured, the justification page of box three severely discoloured and stained, nine prints framed, all further twenty-one loose with interleaving tissue in the titled cut-out paperwrappers, with the three original titled linen-covered boxes
S. 760 x 560 mm. (each) (3)
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Else Valk
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