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The work was part of a portfolio entitled "Roi Ubu" [King Ubu] realised by the artist in 1966. It was printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris and published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris. The paper bears the Arches watermark along the lower margin.
Hand signed and numbered 14/50.
1. Mourlot, F. & Leiris, M. (1977). Joan Miró: Der Lithograph, Vol. III 1964-1969. Geneva: Weber. Reference: Mourlot 4302. Cramer, P. (1989). Miró: Catalogue des Livres Ilustrées. Paris: Edition Cramer. Reference: Cramer 108
Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896. It is a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd and Surrealism. It is the first of three stylized burlesques in which Jarry satirizes power, greed, and their evil practices—in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success.It was followed by Ubu Cocu [Ubu Cuckolded] and Ubu Enchaîné [Ubu Enchained], neither of which was performed during Jarry's 34-year life.Père Ubu first appeared in 1888 in a collaboration between Alfred Jarry and a fellow student at the Rennes Lycée, but his first public appearance came in 1893 when Jarry published some of prose works in an avant-garde review, the Minutes de Sable Mémorial. His triumph, however, was on the stage when the director of the Theâtre de l'Oeuvre, Lugne-Poe staged a production of Ubu Roi.The audience received the play with screams, whistles, fist-shaking, the critics took up the cudgels and the play became infamous and its author an avant-garde hero.Joan Miró used Ubu Roi as a subject of his most famous series, made of 50 1940 lithographs known as "the Barcelona Series." These pictures could be Ubu Roi but they also satirize General Franco and his generals after he had won the Spanish Civil War. He revisited this subject many times in his oeuvre.
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Lot Number: 1
19th Century
Untitled is an etching by American conceptual artist Mel Bochner. The large horizontal work presents an interlocking grid of three-dimensional cube forms rendered in tonal passages of red, orange, and brown, exploiting the optical illusion of reversible perspective characteristic of Bochner's systematic investigations of form and space.
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Lot Number: 2
19th Century
It is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin. There were approximately 20 artist’s proofs aside from the standard edition. The paper bears the Arches watermark in the upper margin.
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Lot Number: 4
Apparel
Mint condition Kelly from 2018 season. Includes lock, two keys, clochette, clochette dust bag, shoulder strap, shoulder strap dust bag, felt protector and dust bag
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