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; €28,502, 27 November 2007

: Marcel Duchamp; La Boîte en Valise – série C (1958), 68 miniature replicas of works by Duchamp, 30 copies; €55,000, April 2006.

: Andy Warhol; Liz Taylor (1964), signed silk-screen print; €25,000, November 2006

Illustrated Books:

: Pablo Picasso; Original etchings for texts by Buffon; €82,000, November 2006.

: Joan Miro; Je travaille comme un jardinier, 20e siècle (Paris 1963), 7 colored lithographs and signed watercolor; €66,000, April 2006

: 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.