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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BERTHE MORISOT Nu de dos.
Drypoint printed in black on light tan Chine collé, 1889. 135x98 mm; 5 1/4x4 inches, full margins. First state (of 3), before cancellation. One of only a few impressions before cancellation. A superb, early impression of this extremely scarce proof, with the drypoint distinct and all the faint drypoint scratches visible.
According to Johnston, there are very few lifetime impressions, before cancellation, none of which were published. Johnston's census of Morisot's prints in European and North American collections reveals no other such impressions of Nu de dos before cancellation or printed on Chine collé.
Exceedingly scarce, we have not found another similar, early impression at auction in the past 25 years and Johnston notes only 2 lifetime impressions: one from the Edgar Degas collection, sold November 6, 1918, and the other possibly from the Roger-Marx collection, sold March, 1914. Johnston 5.
