H a r r y - B e r t o i a---1 9 1 5 - 1 9 7 8


Untitled Abstraction--c.1940, Monoprint.

Unique. Unsigned, as was the artist's custom. Estate stamped HARRY BERTOIA MONOPRINT, verso.

Image size 5 x 7 inches (127 x 178 mm); sheet size 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches (140 x 200 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove Japan paper, the full sheet; in excellent condition.

SOLD

 

abstraction, modernism

6 x 8---c.1945, Monotype.

Unique. Titled 6 x 8 in pencil. Annotated 590 in pencil and ink, bottom right margin. Annotated 130 in pencil, bottom right sheet corner, verso.

Image size 7 3/4 x 6 1/16 inches (197 x 154 mm); sheet size 8 3/16 x 6 11/16 inches (208 x 170 mm).

A fine impression, on cream laid Japan, with narrow, but full margins (1/8 to 1/2 inch); in excellent condition.

SOLD


Untitled--c.1960, Monotype.

Unique. Signed HB in pencil, lower right sheet corner, verso. Inscribed 1852 (the artist’s inventory number) in pencil, lower right sheet corner, recto.

Sheet size 12 x 39 inches (300 x 990 mm).

A superb, painterly impression, on cream wove Japan paper, the full sheet, in excellent condition.

Provenance: Val Bertoia; Private Collection; Rago Auctions, Lambertville, NJ, Sept. 27, 2023, 20I21 Art, Lot 140.

Literature: Harry Bertoia: Monoprints, Nancy N. Schiffer, Schiffer Publishing LTD, 2011; pg. 253.

This work is included in the Harry Bertoia Foundation digital resource, Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné, number TD.MO.1584.

$3800.


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