Lot #198: GEORGES BRAQUE - Eurybia and Eros - Original etching and drypoint

 

Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963).
Title: "Eurybia and Eros".
Medium: Original etching and drypoint.
Date: Composed c1932.
Dimensions: Overall size: 16 x 12 3/4 in. (406 x 324 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil with the initials, lower right; annotated HC in pencil, lower left. From the HC edition of unknown size. Light cream wove paper. Wide margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Comment(s): According to ‘Gordon’s Print Prices’ the auction record for a rare, signed impression of this print is $7,020 set at Galerie Koller, Zurich, June 16, 1994, lot #3223; the most recent sale that ‘Gordon’s’ lists of this increasingly scarce print is the sale of an unsigned impression for $1,490 at ADER Societe de Ventes, Paris, November 25, 2017, lot #561. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [30160-3-1600]