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Phillips de Pury & Company announces highlights from Modern and Contemporary editions sale

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Phillips de Pury & Company announces the highlights from the upcoming Modern and Contemporary Editions Auction at 450 Park Avenue. “A graphic winter wonderland will kick off auctions at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2012 at the Park Avenue galleries. The 270 lots of classic to cutting edge modern and contemporary artist’s editions, with a range of estimates, will appeal to the widest variety of collectors – young and old, new and experienced”. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, co-Directors, Modern and Contemporary Editions at Phillips de Pury & Company. Modern European prints set the historic stage with classic works by Paul Klee Der Seiltänzer (Tightrope Walker), 1923 (est. $20,000-30,000) and Kopf – Bärtiger Mann, 1925 (est. $3,000-5,000), two of the earliest, whimsical (yet so Modern) lithographs in the sale. George Braque’s simply elegant Oiseau verni (Oiseau VII), 195