04/27/2023
The 63rd Annual ABAA New York International Book Fair opens tomorrow at noon, and we’re all set up and ready to welcome you! .
Come along and see our unrivalled collection of artists books and rare volumes..
28th to 30th April. Park Avenue Armory. Park Avenue & 67th Street, New York City. Friday: noon - 8pm. Saturday: noon - 7pm. Sunday: noon - 5pm..
Joan Miró - Le Marteau sans maître (Hammer without a Master), 1976..
Complete set with 23 colored engravings in etching and aquatint by Joan Miró. Paris: Au Vent d'Arles. Folio, loose as issued, in the original gray wrappers. Preserved in tan Morocco backed folding box. A fine copy of this classic example of Miró's work as a book illustrator, this one vibrantly illustrating a poem by French poet René Char. .
Miró illustrated 250 books during his life, and some of the most accomplished, like this one, were produced in his last twenty years between 1960 and 1982. The complete set of 23 unsigned original etchings (ąquaforte and aquatint) in color, hors-texte, (including 8 which are double-page). Copy number one of an edition of 125 copies printed on Arches wove paper, with the watermark Au Vent d'Arles. Signed by Miró and Char on the colophon. Patrick Cramer, “Joan Miró: The Illustrated Books (1989), p. 216. Jacques Dupin “Miró Engraver IV” of the catalogue raisonné (2001), pp. 944-966.
18 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (47.2 x 36 cm).
Available from at the New York Book Fair..
63rd Annual ABAA New York International Book Fair. 28th to 30th April. Park Avenue Armory. Park Avenue & 67th Street, New York City. Friday: noon - 8pm. Saturday: noon - 7pm. Sunday: noon - 5pm..