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ÉDOUARD MANET (AFTER) Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.
Color aquatint and etching, 1929. 500x630 mm; 19⅝x24⅞ inches, full margins. Signed by Jacques Villon and numbered 11/200 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).
