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an image of a drawing of a sphinx in front of a pyramida brown book with a label on it that says egyptan old book with writing on it sitting on top of a tablean open book sitting on top of a white table next to a cup of coffeea black and white drawing of a lighthouse and a trunka black and white drawing of a street with columnsdrawing of a pyramid with a boat in front of itan image of a black and white drawing of a pyramid and a boata black and white drawing of a boat in the watera picture of a picture of a house on the watera black and white drawing of a desert scene
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85 - Lily Converse (1876–1961), painter and engraver
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Estimate €100 - €200
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Lily Converse (1876–1961), painter and engraver Egypt – A collection of twelve lithographs Paris, 1930 12 lithographed plates 32.5 x 25 cm Limited first edition Each signed, numbered 12/50, and mounted on matboard (with foxing) List of plates White folder with flaps (small tears), titled and dated, portfolio with cord, 38 x 33 cm Long autograph dedication: To René Benjamin, who so skilfully captures the mysterious messages that hold us in silence, who so skilfully senses the grandeur of the divine universe and the depth of human sorrow and joy, in gratitude for a delightful hour spent with his beautiful book last night, April 1933" Extremely rare Lily Converse (Hiltrud Carla Sophie “Lily” Schierenberg) was born in Saint Petersburg and studied in Paris, where she was notably a pupil of André Lhote. She married the American banker John Williams Converse in 1909 and lived in the United States, where she taught and took part in numerous exhibitions. She died in Philadelphia. She exhibited this series of lithographs on Egypt at the Salon de l’Escalier on the Champs-Élysées in 1929, and previously at the Salon des Tuileries in Paris.
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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Auction time 10/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
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