Jean-Michel Mathieux-Marie (b. 1947) Le Petit Pont. 2001; Valhala. Drypoint on steel. 205 x 305 and 270 x 475 mm. Perfect blue-gray prints on applied bubble, numbered, titled, signed and dated in pencil, the 2nd annotated "printed by the artist". All margins. Edition of 150 and 120 proofs respectively. Dry stamp: Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français (dry stamp: Lugt 1195a) on the 1st. Joint: engraved steel plate of the 1st subject, signed with the monogram and dated, pierced in the lower left corner. Set of 3 p.

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