Mar 08, 2016 - Sale 2407

Sale 2407 - Lot 51

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?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, full margins. Signed and numbered 2/200 by Villon in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon, Paris. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression with vibrant colors.

During the 1920s, Villon 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 seminal painting from 1862-63 now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (see also lots 63, 92, 109, 410 and 417). Ginestet/Pouillon 668 (Villon).