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[L'Etoile double.]

[L'Etoile double.]

P. Hermann Eichens [signed in pencil lower right.] ['Faléro' and 'Eichens' signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right.]
London published October 1st. 1883 by Goupil & Co. 116 & 111. New Bond street London, W. and 9 rue Chaptal Paris Copyright registered.
Engraving with etching and aquatint on india laid paper, signed engraver's proof before title, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting. Printseller's Association blindstamp lower left.
[Ref: 8042]  £620.00


 

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