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ÉDOUARD MANET Les Gitanos.
Etching, 1862. 320x236 mm; 12 1/2x9 1/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2). A very good impression.
This is Manet's (1832-1883) first published etching. It was based on an oil painting of the same subject by Manet, exhibited in 1863 at the Galerie Martinet, Paris, and in 1867 at the temporary pavilion he erected on the avenue de l'Alma near the Exposition Universelle. He subsequently cut the canvas into several fragments, evidently in response to the negative criticism it received. The etching is the only record of the full composition of this now destroyed painting. Guérin 21; Harris 18.
