Colour Prints Reproduced from Original Paintings. SIGNED INSCRIBED AND DATED BY TRETCHIKOFF

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Tretchikoff has signed the inside front stiff marbled card board by hand and hand dated his signature 20-12-52, the year of publication in 1952. The final raised plate, called Blue Monday and featuring the artist slumped with his easel, is also hand signed and inscribed: " To my dearest friend Peggy, and cut throat enemy in canasta. V. Tretchikoff 20.12.52". . Near fine excellent condition with all 12 raised plates including the self portrait on the folder cover. In marbled card stiff covers with wrap around folder cover as issued with gilt titles and spiral binding. Signed and inscribed to Peggy ( Margaret) Roscoe who after her Cape Town years lived near Hartley, Southern Rhodesia ( now Chegutu, Zimbabwe ), but socialised with Tretchikoff on numerous occasions, including canasta sessions with him and his wife at their splendid mansion in Bishopscourt, Cape Town. Her iconic painting by Tretchikoff called Crawfish Seller which she bought prior to 1952, was later exhibited in Durban with her permission in 1959, and became one of the subjects of the artist's many and profuse lithographic reproductions, all iconic monuments to mid century "kitsch". She later made a Christmas card of her painting on a raised plate, a scarce original of which is also for sale by us at the time of listing. Seller Inventory # 80262

Publisher: Cape Town, Howard Timmins

Publication Date: 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition