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Self-Portrait, Paris. [Self Portrait with Lemon.]

  • ARTIST: Howard Cook

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph, chine colle,

    DATE: 1929.

  • EDITION SIZE: Edition 40. Image size 8 1/2 x 10 1/4" (21.6 x 26 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Printed by Edmond Desjobert, Paris. <BR><BR> Drawn on stone in a small hotel on Rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris, Summer, 1929.<BR><BR> "I wonder if the 1929 Self-Portrait is the lithograph that I did in Paris, in a mirror and with books and a pipe in it" - Carl Zigrosser was always amused with the sardonic touch of the lemon. If this is the one there is only one state." Howard Cook, 1974. <br><br>

  • ADDITIONAL INFO: Signed in pencil, inscribed "40 in circle (edition size), titled "Self Portrait" in lower margin.

  • CONDITION: Very good condition.

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