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483

JOAN MIRÓ

Anti-Platon

.

Aquatint and etching on

Japon nacré

, 1951-62. 128x90 mm; 5x3

1

/

2

inches, full margins.

Numbered 14/15 in pencil, lower left. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Paris. Published

by Maeght, Paris. From the same-titled suite. A superb, richly-inked impression. Dupin

74; Cramer 77.

[1,000/1,500]

484

JOAN MIRÓ

Anti-Platon

.

Color aquatint and etching on

Japon nacré

and 2 aquatints and etching on

Japon nacré

, 3

impressions total, 1951-62. Each 90x128 mm; 3x5

1

/

2

inches, full margins. Each numbered

14/15 in pencil, lower left. Printed by Lacourière and Frélaut, Paris. Published by Maeght,

Paris. Both from the same-titled suite. Superb, richly-inked impressions.

Miró first produced this plate in 1951 as a deluxe greeting card for Galerie Maeght, Paris,

and later reworked it, adding figural etchings, in 1962 to illustrate a deluxe edition of

Anti-Platon

byYves Bonnefoy. Dupin 73; Cramer 77.

[3,000/5,000]

485

JOAN MIRÓ

Femme et Oiseau devant la Lune

.

Etching and aquatint, 1947. 113x149 mm; 4

1

/

2

x5

7

/

8

inches, wide margins. Signed, dated

and numbered 86/300 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Atelier 17, NewYork. Published

by Laurel Gallery, NewYork. From

Laurels Number One

. A very good, dark impression of

this early etching. Dupin 51.

[2,000/3,000]

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