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GOYA’S RARE MASTERPIECE, AN EXTRAORDINARY FIRST EDITION OF LOS CAPRICHOS, COMPLETE WITH 80 ETCHINGS, AND WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON PLATE 45
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Los Caprichos. Madrid, 1799. First edition, superb copy, of Goya’s rarest book, Los Caprichos, one of only a few copies sold in Madrid by Goya himself, and in its most desirable first state, without the scratch on plate 45, indicating it was one of the first copies printed. $525,000.
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GOYA’S MASTERPIECE DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA:
EXTRAORDINARY 1863 FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, COMPLETE WITH 80 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Desastres de la Guerra. Madrid, 1863. Two volumes. Total of 80 numbered and titled copperplate etchings done with drypoint, burin, aquatint and lavis, on wove paper with watermark J.G.O. and palmette. First edition, second issue, of “the most brutally savage protest against cruelty and war which the visual imagination of man has conceived”—one of only 500 copies in the first printing. Fine, early impressions, with tonal variations in the lavis that disappear in later editions. $225,000.
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GOYA’S MASTERPIECE TAUROMAQUIA:
EXTRAORDINARY RARE 1855 SECOND EDITION, FINELY PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL PLATES, WITH ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS BOUND IN
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Coleccion de las diferentes suertes y actitudes [Tauromaquia]. Madrid, 1855. Rare second edition of Goya’s magisterial survey of the “fiesta nacional”—33 dramatic etched and aquatinted plates of bullfighting scenes in early impressions from the original plates etched by Goya. This copy bound with the seven additional plates published for the first time in the 1876 third edition. $140,000.
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GOYA’S EXTRAORDINARY PROVERBIOS: 1864 FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES, COMPLETE WITH 18 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Los Proverbios. Madrid, 1864. First edition of Goya’s allegorical series of 18 etchings with aquatint—one of only 300 copies in the first printing. “This edition is very well printed; the impressions are richly inked and tone is usually left on the highlights” (Harris). $130,000.
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“ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS’ BOOKS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY” BY “TWO OF THE MOST ENIGMATIC ARTISTS OF OUR TIME”
JOHNS, Jasper. BECKETT, Samuel. Foirades / Fizzles. London and New York, 1976. Signed limited first edition of this renowned artist’s book, a collaboration between two greats of 20th-century modernism, with five texts by Samuel Beckett accompanied by 33 original etchings by Jasper Johns (many also utilize aquatint and drypoint; six double-page, two printed in color forming the endpapers). This copy number 186 of only 250 signed by both Beckett and Johns. $25,000.
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ONE OF ONLY 50 SIGNED BY GEORGE BARBIER
BARBIER, George and MIOMANDRE, Francis de. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. London, 1913. Limited first edition in English of this lavish visual tribute to the great Nijinsky, with 12 striking full-page line blocks by George Barbier, hand-colored en pochoir. This copy number 46 of only 50 copies signed by Barbier, Francis de Miomandre, and the editor. $19,000.
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DALÍ’S TWELVE APOSTLES, WITH 12 SPLENDID ELEPHANT FOLIO COLOR LITHOGRAPHS, EACH SIGNED BY DALÍ—ONE OF ONLY 350 ON ARCHES PAPER
[DALI, Salvador]. The Twelve Apostles [or, Knights of the Round Table]. Paris, 1977. First edition of this collection of 12 full-color folio lithographs after original gouaches by Dalí, each print number 327 of only 350 numbered copies on Arches paper (from a total edition of 430), each boldly signed in pencil by Dalí. $15,000.
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BEAUTIFUL 1926 LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF GAUGUIN’S TAHITIAN JOURNAL NOA NOA
GAUGUIN, Paul. Noa Noa: Voyage de Tahiti. Munich, 1926. Limited first edition, number XVII of only 80 copies bound in publisher’s full yellow morocco, out of a total of 400 copies, of Gauguin’s Tahitian journal Noa Noa, lavishly illustrated with watercolors, woodcuts, and photographs by Gauguin. The woodcuts are presented here for the first time. $15,000.
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“THE SAME RELIGIOUS FORCE AS THE BIBLE ITSELF”
CHAGALL, Marc. Drawings for the Bible. New York, (1960). Rare first American edition of Chagall’s second series of illustrations for the Bible, with 96 black-and-white heliogravures, as well as 24 color lithographs prepared by Chagall especially for the present work and printed by Mourlot Frères. $12,500.
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SIGNED BY PICASSO
(PICASSO, Pablo) ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. New York, 1934. Signed limited edition, number 1047 of 1500 copies signed by Picasso, with six original etchings—“among his most important in the classical style”—and 34 in-text lithographs. $12,000.
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