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Lot 3163
Four Books on Joan Miró, Including the Limited Edition Oiseau Solaire
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
David Sylvester. MIRÓ: OISEAU SOLAIRE, OISEAU LUNAIRE, ÉTINCELLES. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, November 1967. Exh. cat. Regular, limited edition. No. 124 of 1200 (1275 total) copies. Printed on vélin d'Arches. Paperback. In illustrated wraps, in illustrated die-cut jacket. 4to; 38, [2]pp. With (6) color plates as called for, including tipped-in artist's palette frontispiece, (2) tipped-in works on sandpaper, Femme II, Personnage et Oiseau II, and the triptych laid in loose. (Very light edgewear to wraps, interior with occasional mark, artist's palette with folded corner, offsetting; jacket with toning (heaviest at edges and spine), very light scuffs and grime, and minimal edgewear; an overall very good or better copy.)

Pierre Schneider. MIRÓ SOBRE PAPEL: OILS, MIXED MEDIA, COLLAGES, GOUACHES, WATERCOLORS, DRAWINGS 1964-1971. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1972. Exh. cat. Paperback. Plain white wraps, in illustrated jacket designed by Miró. 4to; unpaginated [32pp.]. (Wraps with minor edgewear, a few pages with marks, jacket with some toning and edgewear; about near fine in very good jacket.)

Jacques Dupin. JOAN MIRÓ: LIFE AND WORK. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1962]. First edition (with no other printings listed). Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards stamped in white, in illustrated jacket. 4to; 596pp. with index. With hand-tipped plates. (Boards with mild scuffing and lightly toned extremities; interior with minor marks on endpaper and one page with a small imperfection; jacket with some creasing and scuffs, one very small tear on the spine, a long indentation on the back, and toning at spine and along top edge of both flaps; very good to near fine copy in very good jacket.)

Alexandre Cirici. MIRÓ MIRALL. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, S. A., 1977. Hardcover. Illustrated white cloth-covered boards with black lettering on the spine, in jacket. 4to; 245, [1]pp. Text in Spanish. In removable protective mylar jacket. (Volume nearly pristine with one faint mark on upper board, slight separation from text block at head, and clean and bright pages; jacket with light toning and edgewear, and offsetting to interior; near fine in very good jacket.)

12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.; 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.; 10 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.; 11 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.