Classic and Enduring - International Prints & Drawings
Collectors' List 132 2008

21 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
[Boy With Green Hands Holding Artist’s Palette and Book], 1958. Colour aquatint, signed and annotated “Paulhan” in plate upper centre, 34.5 x 26.5cm. Framed.
Plate 1 from De Mauvais Sujets, text by Jean Paulhan, containing a suite of 10 colour etchings and aquatints, with a complete edition of 163. In De Mauvais Sujets, the story is about a young boy worrying about appropriate subjects for essays in his French class. Ref: Kornfeld #106, Cramer #35.
 $2,200
22 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
The Summer Season [From “Daphnis And Chloe”], 1961. Colour lithograph, 42 x 32cm. Slight discolouration to image. Framed.
This lithograph is No. 145 from an edition of 250 and was printed by Mourlot and published by Tériade, Paris. Text by Longus. Ref: Mourlot #337.
 $2,800
23 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
Acrobats At Play, 1963. Colour lithograph, 32 x 24.5cm. Framed.
From The Lithographs of Chagall, Vol. II, published by André Sauret, printed by Mourlot and Draeger. Ref: Mourlot #401.
 $1,350
24 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
The Yellow Background, 1969. Colour lithograph, poster format, signed in image lower right, 66 x 50.2cm. Framed.
This lithograph is a printer’s proof without text and comes from an edition of 100. It was created for Chagall’s one-man show at the Maeght Gallery, Paris in 1969 and was printed by Mourlot. Illustrated in Sorlier (ed.), Chagall’s Posters: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1975, p56. Ref: Mourlot #602.
 $2,850
25 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
The Green River, 1974. Colour lithograph, 27.5 x 56.5cm. Vertical centre fold as issued, with minor tear at upper edge of image. Framed.
From Chagall, by André Pierre de Mandiargues, published by Maeght. Ref: Mourlot #728.
 $1,850
26 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985)
The Painter And His Double, 1981. Colour lithograph, 31.7 x 47.2cm. Vertical centre fold as issued.
Issued in Derrière le Mirroir, No. 246. Ref: Mourlot #992.
 $1,850
27 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875)
A Picnic In A Clearing, 1857/later printing. Cliché-verre, dated and signed in image lower left and lower right, 17.1 x 22.1cm (paper). Minor chips to corners, uneven margins. Ref: Melot #C65.
Cliché-verre is a technique that combines aspects of printmaking and photography. Developed around 1839, this process begins with a glass plate on which an artist either paints or scratches a design on a prepared ground. The glass plate is then treated as a negative and placed on top of light-sensitive paper and exposed to the sun (or light). Corot and other artists of the Barbizon school were the first, and most prolific, experimenters with this technique.
 $2,650
28 Giorgio de Chiroco (Greek/Italian, 1888-1978)
Zebra E Cavallo, c1970. Colour lithograph, editioned XXIV/XXV and signed in pencil in lower margin, 44 x 59.5cm. Slight handling crinkles to edges of image and margins.
Printed on Japon nacré paper. The subject of this lithograph is very similar to a painting by de Chirico held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
 $8,800
29 John Stockton de Martelly (American, 1903-1979)
Looking At Sunshine, c1930s. Lithograph, signed in pencil in lower margin, 25.9 x 32.5cm.
Illustrated in Beall et. al., American Prints in the Library of Congress, 1970, p131.
 $1,150
30 Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Manet Seated, Turned To The Left, 1864-1865/later printing. Etching, 17 x 12cm. Stain to image centre left.
Printed from the original cancelled plate (second state). While Degas produced over 50 etchings, there were only a small quantity of lifetime impressions for each image. Ref: Delteil #15.
 $2,200