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Pierre Alechinsky "Ca Serpente", 1963

Name: Pierre Alechinsky "Ca Serpente", 1963
Brand: Pierre Alechinsky
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Pierre Alechinsky

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Pierre Alechinsky  (b. 1927)

CA SERPENTE, 1963

Etching
Pencil signed and numbered
27 1/2 × 21 1/2 inches

69.9 × 54.6 cm

Edition of only 10 (HC X)

J.L. Hudson Gallery label

This is a rare, striking etching from the early '60s, in an hors commerce edition of only 10 in Roman Numerals, (III/X) aside from the regular edition of 50 - which makes it even more rare as it was originally not available for sale. The work is in the vintage 1960s frame with the J.L. Hudson Gallery label on the verso. It came from the J.L. Hudson Gallery, founded in 1963 by Joseph L. Hudson, the president of the Detroit based J.L. Hudson Company. Hudson is credited with bringing the highest caliber modernist art to the Detroit areas. The legendary Albert Landry, who had previously owned a gallery in New York, was hired as its first director. This print is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Alechinsky's printed works.
Publisher: La Hune
Catalogue Raisonné: 185, Rivière

Signature: Signed and dated lower right recto (front); numbered in pencil lower left

Publisher: La Hune

Provenance:

Ca Serpente has excellent provenance, as it came from the J.L. Hudson Gallery, founded in 1963 by Joseph L. Hudson, the president of the Detroit based J.L. Hudson Company. Hudson is credited with bringing the highest caliber modernist art to the Detroit areas. The legendary Albert Landry, who had previously owned a gallery in New York, was hired as its first director. This print is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne of Alechinsky's printed works. Bears J.L. Hudson Gallery label verso of frame

Literature: Catalogue Raisonné: 185, Rivière