Andre Derain La Satyricon (1951) (Copper Engraving) (PHG 19)

Printed on grand vélin d’Arches. Derain’s austere and classical interpretation of incidents from Petronius’s savage and bawdy Roman satire. Conceived in the 1930s for Ambroise Vollard. A fine example of Derain’s retreat from the excesses of Fauvism to a more constrained classical style. Condition: faint trace of spotting to edges of paper.