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Lot 143
  • 143

Lucien Clergue

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Lucien Clergue
  • 'PHARAONNE'
  • Cibachrome prints
(France: self-published, 1982, a projected edition of 25), a portfolio of 11 Cibachrome prints, each signed in white crayon in the margin, credit, title, date, process, copyright, and edition '6/25' in ink on the reverse, 1981, printed in 1982.  Folio, gilt-stamped black linen folding box with Egyptian scarab attached; accompanied by a color transparency within a lighted wall display (one portfolio, one lightbox) (2)

Provenance

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, 1996

Condition

These Cibachrome prints are in generally excellent condition. The colors remain saturated, and there is no evidence of fading.
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Catalogue Note

According to the photographer, only a few copies of this portfolio were realize🧸d, and the edition was never ⛄completed.  At the time of this writing, only 2 other complete copies have been located: in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and in a private collection.