Sale 5418
London, South Kensington
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10 June 2008
Price realised
GBP 1,375
Estimate
Joan Miro (1893-1983) One plate, from Joan Miró lithographs II (Mourlot 1043; cf. Cramer books 198) lithograph in colours, 1975, on Arches, signed in pencil, numbered LIX/LXXX (there was also a deluxe book edition of 150), published by Maeght, Paris, with full margins, pale light-staining, mount-staining, an unobtrusive handling mark in the upper left margin, a small area of surface dirt in the right margin, otherwise in good condition L. 310 x 235 mm., S. 447 x 367 mm.
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