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WILLIAM BLAKE

Lot 29

Songs of Innocence, 1789

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Lot 29

Songs of Innocence, 1789

Estimate: US$ 1,000,000 - 1,500,000

€ 869,000 - 1,300,000

Auction: 32 days

Christie's Paris

City: NewYork

Auction: Jun 10, 2025

Auction number: 23946

Auction name: Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector, Connoisseur

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Lot Details

·With distinguished provenance; not only Maurice Sendak’s personal copy but also from the collections of Edwin Grabhorn and of Abel Berland

Lot Details

Object description

·With distinguished provenance; not only Maurice Sendak’s personal copy but also from the collections of Edwin Grabhorn and of Abel Berland

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21 The Bed of Death (recto); and A subsidiary sketch of a figure in a doorway ...

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22 Paolo and Francesca

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23 'With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow'

pencil, pen and black ink and grey wash on paper

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24 The First Book of Urizen: Plate 3: 'O flames of furious desire'; subsidiary...

colour-printed relief etching and pencil, finished in pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour (recto)

€ 87,000 - 130,000

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25 The Pastorals of Virgil: Four Plates

wood-engraving, on two joined sheets of wove paper, without watermark, circa 1821, a rare first-state proof of the woodblock before it was divided, a fine, richly inked impression, with margins, framed

€ 53,000 - 70,000

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26 The Pastorals of Virgil

the complete set of seventeen wood-engravings (sixteen plates plus title page), on wove paper, without watermark, circa 1821, a uniform set, printing with clarity and detail even in the finest lines, each with margins, framed

€ 4,400 - 6,200

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27 The Man Sweeping the Interpreter's Parlor

relief-etching and white-line engraving, on wove paper, without watermark, circa 1822, Bindman's second, final, state, (the impression in the first state, sold in the Rinder sale at Christie’s in 1995, is thought to be unique), with the hatching in the lower left corner and right edge now complete, a fine, richly inked impression, with very good contrasts and clarity, even in the finest lines, with margins, in very good condition, framed

€ 43,000 - 61,000

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28 Oberon and Titania on a Lily

pencil, pen and black ink and watercolor with scratching out on paper

€ 352,000 - 528,000

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30 Songs of Experience

€ 880,000 - 1,300,000

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110 The Complaint, and The Consolation; or Night Thoughts

€ 2,600 - 4,400