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Lot 16 - DÜRER Albrecht (1471 - 1528) - "Saint Jerome in His Study". 1514. Original burin. Signed with the artist's monogram and dated in the composition on the right. Ref: Bartsch, no. 60. Meder, no. 59c. Proof of the c/f state (according to Meder), before the curved scratch on the ceiling, on laid paper. The scholar Saint Jerome (c. 347-420 CE) diligently translates the Bible while seated in his comfortable study. He is accompanied by a lion who became his faithful companion when Jerome removed a thorn from his paw. As well as being kind to animals, Jerome was humble but extremely learned, able to translate the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin, a language that ordinary people could read. Dürer offers us a spectacular spectacle of light entering through tiny round panes of glass. Dürer's etchings deal seven times with the theme of St. Jerome, one of the most represented sacred figures in art, both over and under the Alps, and who, in the early 16th century, became for humanists the exemplary symbol of the Christian scholar. Considering the sequence of Dürer's three "Meisterstiche", or masterpieces - The Knight, Death and the Devil, Saint Jerome in his Cell and Melancholy - the Saint Jerome reaches a degree of perfection unique in his work and in the art of engraving. Dürer's Saint Jerome is unanimously regarded as the most accomplished masterpiece of the burin. The artist's exceptional treatment of contour lines and hatching, adapted to each model, simultaneously renders the graphic form of the object and the pictorial effects of textures. 24 x 18.6 cm. Condition B (subject trimmed at top and bottom, minor restorations).

Estim. 15 000 - 18 000 EUR

Lot 27 - MIRO Joan (1893 - 1986) - "Grand Duc I". 1965. Original etching and aquatint, printed in colors. Ref: Dupin, n°394. Fine proof on Arches wove paper, signed and dedicated "à Marguerite Benhoura, affectueusement 7/XI/68" in pencil by the artist. Printed and published by Maeght in Paris. Total edition of 75 copies (numbered and signed) and a few signed copies hors commerce. All margins. From 1959 to 1966, Miro worked mainly with Robert Dutrou in the Galerie Maeght studio in Levallois, then with the same man at the Arte printing works on rue Daguerre. [...] In Levallois, until 1966, the artist engraved some fifty prints, mostly in etching and aquatint. The hors-commerce copy presented here is dedicated to Marguerite Benhoura. Marguerite Benhoura (1903-1987), an associate of the Maeght gallery and a passionate art collector, was responsible for managing Miró's etchings. Miró described her as the "miraculous fairy of the archives" or as "the benevolent Angel of [his] etchings" (in his dedications). She developed a close relationship of friendship and esteem with the artist, who gave her several of his books as gifts between 1970 and 1979, often off-the-shelf copies that he kept for his close friends and family. In 1974, Marguerite Benhoura was one of the authors of the catalog "Miró: l'oeuvre graphique" for the exhibition at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris. 68 x 53 cm for the subject. 90 x 63.5 cm for the sheet. Condition A (brown stain on verso caused by old mounting. Very rare minor handling marks. Good condition).

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR