29th Jul, 2020 10:30 GMT/BST

Modern & Contemporary Art - Timed Auction

 
Lot 22
 

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After Joan Miró (1893-1983) Spanish ''Le Chat Heureux'' / The Happy Cat, 1975 Signed and...

After Joan Miró (1893-1983) Spanish
"Le Chat Heureux" / The Happy Cat, 1975
Signed and numbered X/LXXX, lithograph, 44cm by 61.5cm

Provenance: The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh

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Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £600 - £800


 

Some light surface dirt and the odd thunder fly trapped under the glass - mostly to the mount but one to upper right approximately 3 cm above the cat's tail. Paper cockling, hinged at the four corners. The print has a deckled edge. Two feint foxing spots to centre of right hand side edge and a tiny cluster to the upper right corner. Brown mark bottom right corner - may be by design. Not examined out of the frame.

 


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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art - Timed Auction, 29th Jul, 2020

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