?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ÉDOUARD MANET (AFTER) Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Color aquatint and etching, 1929. 500x630 mm; 19 5/8x24 7/8 inches, wide margins. Signed by Jacques Villon and numbered 45/200 in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good, richly-inked impression with strong colors.
During the 1920s, Villon (1875-1963) created masterful color prints after paintings by artists as varied as Picasso, Renoir, Rousseau, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse, Dufy, Modigliani and others, along with this work after Manet's (1832-1883) celebrated painting from 1862-63, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Ginestet/Pouillon 668 (Villon).
