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280 - Georges Braque. *Le tir à l’arc*. *Mis en lumière*. Paris, Louis Broder, 1960. Includes eight color lithographs, one of which is double-page in size and serves as the front cover, as well as an etching on the back cover and two woodcuts, each repeated. Loose double-sheet pages in the two covers, the original silk slipcase, and a folder with a clasp.

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€800 - 1,200

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32%

Georges Braque. *Le tir à l’arc*. *Mis en lumière*. Paris, Louis Broder, 1960. Includes eight color lithographs, one of which is double-page in size and serves as the front cover, as well as an etching on the back cover and two woodcuts, each repeated. Loose double-sheet pages in the two covers, the original silk slipcase, and a folder with a clasp. Call time: approx. 3:36 p.m. (schedule subject to change) One of 130 copies (total edition of 165). - Signed by Braque on the sheet bearing the copy number. - The texts are taken from *Le Zen dans l’art chevaleresque du tir à l’arc* by D. T. Suzuki and E. Herrigel and the *Aphorismes et pensées*, selected from Georges Braque’s *Cahiers 1917–1952*. - Printed in a charming small format on Moulin d’Ambert chiffon vellum in red and black. - The two woodcuts were printed twice: once on brown rag paper as an insert in the slipcase, and again on the front cover of the silk slipcase and the spine of the folder, respectively. - Very rare. Vallier 153. - A&B 43 23.0 × 16.0 cm. 52, [14] pages. - Spine of the slipcase slightly faded and stained. - The cover lithograph has 3 small foxing spots. English description: With eight color lithographs, including one double-sheet as the cover, as well as an etching on the second cover and two woodcuts, each repeated. Loose double-sheets in the doubled covers, original silk case, and a slipcase with a clasp. One of 130 copies (total print run of 165). - Signed by Braque on the page bearing the copy number. - The texts were selected from *Le Zen dans l’art chevaleresque du tir à l’arc* by D. T. Suzuki and E. Herrigel (1955) as well as from aphorisms and reflections by Georges Braque from his *Cahiers 1917–1952*. - Printed in a charming small format on Moulin d’Ambert chiffon vellum in red and black. - The two woodcuts were printed twice: once on brown rag paper as an insert in the slipcase, and once more on the front cover of the silk slipcase and the spine of the slipcase. - Very rare. The spine of the slipcase is slightly faded. - The lithographed cover has a few small foxing spots.

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Auction details

Auction 34: Art & Books - Special Catalog: 20th-Century Artist's Books / Renker Collection, Part 2
Saturday, November 21
12:00 PM
86 A Osterbekstraße
22083 Hamburg, Germany

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Christian Hesse Auktionen +49 4 06 94 54 247 mail@hesse-auktionen.de
On Drouot for 4 years avec More than 1,000 lots published

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