?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
CAMILLE PISSARRO Effet de Pluie.
Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, 1879. 158x217 mm; 6 1/4x8 1/2 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 6), before the engraved signature. One of approximately only 4 impressions in this state, from a total lifetime edition of approximately 15 to 20 in all states (there were also 14 posthumous impressions). Titled and inscribed "2e état--no. 3" in pencil, lower margin. A superb, richly-inked and beautifully printed impression of this extremely scarce, chef d'oeuvre of Impressionist printmaking, with warm plate tone and inky plate edges.
We have found only 5 other lifetime impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 24.
