Mar 05, 2009 - Sale 2172

Sale 2172 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ÉDOUARD MANET
Olympia (grande planche).

Etching, 1867. 163x242 mm; 6 3/8x9 1/2 inches, wide margins. Fourth state (of 4). A superb, richly-inked impression of this scarce print on cream laid paper.

According to Harris, this print was the first version made after the infamous painting of 1863, not the smaller etching which was included in Zola's pamphlet (see lot 8). The composition and proportions of the present work resemble the painting much more closely than the smaller version. Guérin 40; Harris 52.