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Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching on Wove Paper
Additional information: This original etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Magritte” in the lower right margin. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of at the lower left margin. This work was printed in 1966 at the studio of J.Rigal, Paris and published in a limited edition of hand signed and numbered impressions for the series “L’Aube à l’Antipode” [Dawn of the Antipode]. It is from the rare suite of seventeen hand signed etchings. There is also a suite of 77 where only two of the etchings (La Comtesse de Monte Cristo and Les Deux Mystéres (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) are signed in pencil.
Literature: Kaplan, Gilbert E. & Timothy Baum, 1982. The Graphic Work of RENE MAGRITTE. New York: II Editions
Reference: Kaplan & Baum 11.
Condition: Good condition. The upper sheet edge unevenly cut. Remnants of pale staining across the sheet.
