Art books in a Ketterer Kunst (20% buyer’s premium) sale of May 22 included one of 15 deluxe copies of a 1950 edition of Harry Roskolenko’s Paris Poems, containing an original watercolour by Zau Wou-Ki and an extra suite of his lithographed illustrations. It sold at €42,000 (£36,240).
Not quite so expensive, but at €29,000 (£25,020) raising a much higher than predicted and record sum, was Le Surréalisme en 1947 (above right), a slightly browned example of the deluxe edition of this important catalogue.