Mar 13, 2018 - Sale 2469

Sale 2469 - Lot 50

Unsold
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
BERTHE MORISOT
Eaux-fortes originales.

Portfolio with 8 drypoints, 1885-88 (1907 edition). 356x278 mm; 14x11 inches (sheets), full margins, loose as issued.

Early impressions, before steel facing and cancellation, with the burr undiminshed. Each with the artist's initials ink stamp (Lugt 388b, lower left recto) and numbered 4/25 in pencil, lower right.

With the original paper folders in the original green pasteboard portfolio and slipcase.

Superb impressions of these extremely scarce prints. Johnston cites only 4 known complete sets in public collections, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; British Museum, London; The Albertina, Vienna; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

With-- Jeune femme au repos, drypoint, 1889. Additional impression after cancellation. Johnston 1-8.