Prints and Illustrated Books

Discover the unlimited liaisons between illustrated books, prints and works of art

Our dynamic department heads the field in Paris. Prints are a burgeoning field of auction activity, and one that all the leading modern and contemporary artists showed keen interest in.

Our department head Isabelle Milsztein was the first specialist to stage sales jointly featuring both illustrated books and prints.

To stress this complementarity, illustrated books and prints are shown and sold at the same time as modern and contemporary art.

Some recent prices

Prints:

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Mick Jagger, 1975
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Mick Jagger, 1975
€28,502, 27 November 2007
La boîte en valise – série C, 1958, Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
La Boîte en Valise – série C (1958), 68 miniature replicas of works by Duchamp, 30 copies
€55,000, April 2006.
Liz Taylor, 1964, Sérigraphie en couleur signée
Andy Warhol
Liz Taylor (1964), signed silk-screen print
€25,000, November 2006

Illustrated Books:

Eaux-fortes originales de Pablo Picasso pour les textes de Buffon
Pablo Picasso
Original etchings for texts by Buffon
€82,000, November 2006.
Je travaille comme un jardinier, Paris, XXème siècle, 1963, Joan Miro
Joan Miro
Je travaille comme un jardinier, 20e siècle (Paris 1963), 7 colored lithographs and signed watercolor
€66,000, April 2006
Maximiliana ou l’exercice illégal de l’astronomie, Paris, Max Ernst
Max Ernst
Maximiliana or l’exercice illégal de l’astronomie, Le Degré Quarante et Un (Paris 1964), 33 colored etchings
€70,000, April 2006

Auction Dates

At the Hôtel Dassault:

Three sales per year on average, including two prestige sales in Spring and Autumn at the same time as our prestige sales of modern and contemporary art.

Upcoming Auction

2 December 2008
Prints and Illustrated Books

 

Pablo Picasso, Jacqueline au capeau à fleurs, 1962

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Jacqueline au chapeau à fleurs, 1962
Gravure sur linoléum en noir et crème, épreuve signée et annotée “1er état” (édition à 50)
46 x 38,5 cm
€19,827, 20 May 2008

Specialists

Phone: +33 1 42 99 20 25
, junior specialist
Phone: +33 1 42 99 20 25