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ANDRE MASSON
Balagny 1896 - 1987 Paris (French)
L'Odyssee - 1977/78
Portfolio with 12 Hand Signed and Numbered Original Etchings
Title : L'Odyssee
Technique : Portfolio with 12 Original Color Etching and Aquatint on Velin the Rives paper.
Portfolio size : 67.5 X 52 cm / 26.5 X 20.5 inch.
Additional Information : This important work by Andre Masson includes 12 different Etchings.
Each one of the etchings is printed on a full seperate sheet of Velin paper and each one of them is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right margins as well as Hand Numbered in pencil "89/120" at the lower left margins.
Each etching is presented inside a double page folder with the title of the work printed on the front of the cover.
The portfolio also includes the original text by Jacques Lassaigne and the justification page which details the edition and is also hnd numbered in pencil.
The portfolio box is covered with blue fabric.
The work was printed in 1978 when Masson printed the etching between December 1977 to May 1978.
It was printed in a limited edition of 120 hand numbered copies plus 20 artist's proofs.
The etchings were printed in the famous studio of Atelier Crommelynck. The plates were destroyed after the edition was printed.
The work was published by UNESCO for the project of saving the Acropolis in Athens.
Literature :Andre Masson- Catalogue Raisonne des Livres Illustres (Andre Masson-The complete Illustrated Books) by Lawrence Saphire and Patrick Cramer, Edition Cramer, Geneve, 1994.
Reference: Cramer 111.
Condition : Excellent condition.
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