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CAMILLE PISSARRO AND GEORGE W. THORNLEY Jardins formals<>.
Lithograph printed in light brown on chine appliqué<>, circa 1890. 210x253 mm; 8 3/8x10 inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed by both Pissarro and Thornley in pencil, lower margin. A very good, evenly-printed impression of this scarce print.
Among the Impressionists, Pissarro's only equal in prolificacy was Degas. The latter artist was likely influenced to work with the lithographer Thornley by Theo Van Gogh, the influential director of the Boussod-Valadon Gallery in Paris, and as a result of Thornley's masterful lithographic interpretations of drawings by Puvis de Chavannes. By 1888, Degas and Thornley were working together to produce a portfolio of 15 lithographs based on drawings by Degas. The portfolio was issued in 1889 in an edition of 100, plus an additional 25 copies with each of the prints signed by both artists. Thornley later produced similar sets of lithographs with Monet and Pissarro.
