Joan Miró (1893-1983) Pl. 8 for the portfolio Héraclite d'Éphèse, Sans le soleil, malgré les autres astres, il ferait nuit, Adrien Maeght, 1965. Etching and aquatint. Sight: 270x213. Dupin 408; Czwiklitzer 98. Fine separate edition proof in black, on ivory vellum, with the eight small point strokes at the lower right of the folio (used to identify plate 8 of the suite), signed above the subject and annotated in ample pencil writing "HC" below the subject. Slight insolation. Some light foxing. Margins. Edition of the collection at 75 copies (in addition to 25 copies with the black plates). Framed.

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