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Lot 574

Serafini, Luigi: Codex Seraphinianus, 2 Vols., limited publication of 5000 copies, cloth bound...

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Lot 574

Serafini, Luigi: Codex Seraphinianus, 2 Vols., limited publication of 5000 copies, cloth bound...

Price Realised: £577

Estimate: £250 - £350

Price realised is hammer price plus fees (31.2% Buyers Premium inclusive of VAT).

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Lot 574

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Serafini, Luigi: Codex Seraphinianus, 2 Vols., limited publication of 5000 copies, cloth bound with gilt lettering and illustration to front board, held in presentation clamshell boxes, with accompanying editor's letter, Franco Maria Ricci: Milan, 1981 (2)

Note: Luigi Serafini (b.1949) is an Italian designer and artist who worked as an architect in Milan in the 1980s. His best known work is Codex Seraphinianus, written in an entirely constructed language and described by its editor as an encyclopedic work, with illustrations that "mirror a world and a body of knowledge simultaneously similar and dissimilar to our own, like voices with the same inflection." Codex Seraphinianus was known and appreciated by literary personalities such as Roland Barthes and Italo Calvino, and inspirational for the French choreographer Philippe Decouflé. The editor implores readers to experience the work "like a child who has not yet learned to read but revels in the dreams and fantasies suggested to him by the pictures", and even advises the reader to tear up his own letter to "avoid contaminating the silent wonders of the Orbis Pictus Seraphinianus with the alphabetic plague". 

Buyer's Premium

The buyer shall pay the hammer price together with a premium thereon of 26% up to £20,000 (31.2% inclusive of VAT), 25% from £20,001 - £500,000 (30% inclusive of VAT), 20% from £500,001 thereafter (24% inclusive of VAT). The premium price is subject to VAT at the standard rate.

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VAT is not charged on the hammer price unless it is stated that there is 'VAT applicable on the hammer price at the end of the description. Buyer's premium is subject to VAT.
(ARR) - ARTIST'S RESALE RIGHT

Qualifying living artists and the descendants of artists deceased within the last 70 years are entitled to receive a re-sale royalty each time their work is bought through an auction house or art market professional.

It applies to lots with hammer value over £1,000 as follows:
0 to £50,000 - 4%
£50,000.01 to £200,000 - 3%
£200,000.01 to £350,000 - 1%
£350,000.01 to £500,000 - 0.5%
Exceeding £500,000 - 0.25%
ARR is capped at £12,500

Please note ARR is calculated in euros. Auctioneers will apply current exchange rates.

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