Daphnis et Chloé

JOAN MIRO (1893-1983) Daphnis et Chloé drypoint, on Arches paper, 1933, signed, dated '9.11.33', numbered '1er etat 1/1' and dedicated 'à mon ami Marcoussis affectueusement' a presumably unique proof before the plate was reduced at the left, not recorded in Dupin, engraved in Marcoussis' studio and printed at the Atelier Lacouriere, Paris, skinning in places in the left portion of the subject with associated touched in areas in the leg and arm of the left figure, soiling and tears in the margins Image: 11 x 13 ¾ in. (279 x 349 mm.) Sheet: 13 x 19 7/8 in. (330 x 505 mm.)