Zwölf Holzschnitte (Prasse Editions 4b; Weber 12)

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Lyonel Feininger (1871-1958)
Zwölf Holzschnitte (Prasse Editions 4b; Weber 12)
the complete portfolio of 12 woodcuts, 1918-20, on tissue-thin laid Japan paper, all signed in pencil, with the signed title plate and justification, copy number 15, from the total edition of fifty (the first ten copies were printed on firm Japan paper), published by the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar, 1920, and printed under supervision of the artist at their workshop, each woodcut within the original card mount, the full sheets, the title and two other plates with some light-staining and foxing, the others in very good condition, all within the original half-vellum portfolio with the lithographically printed justification in the back, the paper-covered boards with the linocut fan-design printed on the front and back, with the name of the artist and title in black on the spine(portfolio)
398 x 328 mm. (overall)

Literature

Klaus Weber (ed.), Punkt. Linie. Fläche. Druckgraphik am Bauhaus, exh. cat. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin 1999-2000, p. 110 ff., no. 12 (ill.).

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Descriptif du lot

The portfolio comprises the following woodcuts:
Prasse W 39, 65, 81, 87, 89, 110, 119, 150, 191, 220, 232, 235, 236.

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