Works from Victor Hammer's Stamperia del Santuccio.
Item 34 is ThirteenIrishWritersonIreland.PortraitsbyJackCoughlin (1972). It contains 13 green paper portfolios (what other color would you expect?). They contain text along with a signed, numbered etching by Coughlin. Among the writers depicted are Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and Behan. $2,000.
Item 73 is a group of seven menus celebrating the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine. That may sound like an odd combination, but these weren't ordinary dinner menus. They were printed for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, the French ocean liner operator. Cruise ships may have gotten some bad press lately, but in 1957, this was still the way to travel, though airplanes would soon spell the demise of the business. The menus feature an illustration of a La Fomtaine fable on the cover and the fable itself on the back cover. Menus items are printed in French and English. $160.
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
Sotheby's Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
5-19 June
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
