On Wednesday December 6, PIASA is organizing a sale of editions: prints, illustrated books and works in multiples.
Comprising 274 lots, this sale traverses the history of art over the past century through the prism of artist's editions. The catalog features works in all media - paper, objects, jewelry, ceramics... - by some 140 artists, including avant-garde artists (Kandinsky, Klee, Ernst... ), Surrealists (Man Ray, Dalí), artists from the immediate post-war period (Miró, Chagall), figures from the 1960s and 70s (Warhol, Klein, Dubuffet) and more contemporary names such as Sol LeWitt and Damien Hirst... Also of note are several significant works by Pablo Picasso, Sam Francis, Hans Hartung, Vera Molnar and François-Xavier Lalanne.
Lot 132 | Jean Dubuffet
Red-suited character, 1961
Estimate: 18 000 / 20 000€
The catalog for this publishing sale is a journey through the various artistic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Alongside works by such great figures as Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Malevitch, Ernst, Duchamp... we'd like to highlight a few very special pieces. Paul Klee's Les Amoureux (lot 5) is a lithograph on wove paper, originally printed in an edition of 100 copies from the album Les Maîtres du Bauhaus, published by Bauhaus-Verlag in 1923. À l'heure de l'Observatoire - Les Amoureux by Man Ray (lot 16) is a photolithograph on wove paper in a highly original format (66.8 × 103.2 cm). Marc Chagall's unusually large lithograph (159.5 x 119 cm) (lot 45) is part of a 100-copy screen for the Cramer gallery. Quite unusual is lot 75, the complete and definitive L'art en écrit collection from Éditions Jannink. It comprises 100 books in the same format (12.5 × 21 cm), presented in a pine bookcase specially designed by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Lot 25 | Pablo Picasso
Bach scene with the Minotaure (Suite Vollard, pl. 85) (1933), 1934
Estimate: 8000 / 10 000€
© Succession Picasso 2024
The artist Vera Molnár is also in the spotlight. As early as 1959, she invented the "machine imaginaire", a proto-computer process in which strict compositional instructions are followed by systematic execution. In 1968, she used a computer to help her design works, making her France's pioneer of generative drawing. Curious about all materials and media, she draws, glues, paints, creates sculptures, programs, photographs, installations, artist's books and, whenever she can, prints. Lots 117 to 124 constitute a rare group of serigraphs and lithographs that testify to the richness of her engraved work.
Lot 75 | L'art en écrit & Tadashi Kawamata
Paris, Editions Jannink
Estimate: 40 000 / 60 000€
Another interesting plate is lot 132. This assemblage of Jean Dubuffet's "Personnage au costume rouge" is made up of progressive prints of four Phénomènes découpées lithographs, notably Géométrie (pl. 16 of album XII) for the background - which he would also use for Le noctambule or Le Nez carotte - combined with three new plates specially designed to describe the details of the character.
Lot 23 | Pablo Picasso
Compound figure II - 1949
Estimate: 25 000 / 35 000€
© Succession Picasso 2024
