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Sale 335: 20th Century Works on Paper - Art & Art Reference - Photography (#335) 06/29/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/29/2006 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #83 Les Fenêtres

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$250

Estimate: $400 - $700

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Description

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(Baladine - Spiro, Elisabeth Dorothea)

Title:

Les Fenêtres

Author:

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Place Published:

Paris

Publisher:

Officina Sanctandreana

Date Published:

1927

Description:

With 10 etched drawings by Baladine. 11x8¾, printed wrappers, original glassine. No. 183 of 500 copies.

Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro, worked as "Baladine," was the mother of Balthasar Klossowski (1908-2001) who himself painted under the name Balthus. Balthus, a name suggested by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke after their collaboration on Mitsou (1921) when he was only 13.

Condition:

Glassine with large edge chips; splits to volume joints, slight darkening; bookseller's tiny rubberstamp; else very good and clean.

Item#:

172962
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