Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ÉDOUARD MANET
Le Guitarero (ou Le Chanteur Espagnol).

Etching and roulette printed in dark brownish black on cream laid paper, 1861-62. 298x245 mm; 11 3/4x9 5/8 inches, full margins. Sixth state (of 6). A very good, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts.

Based on Manet's same-titled painting, 1861, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. When it was first exhibited, at the Paris Salon of 1861, it brought him his first major critical success, which created a demand for the etched version. Guérin 16; Harris 12.