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CAMILLE PISSARRO andGEORGE W. THORNLEY 25 Lithographies.
Portfolio with complete text and 25 lithographs printed in either brown, light purple-brown or greenish brown on cream chine appliqué mounted on stiff cream wove paper, circa 1900. 570x400 mm; 22 1/2x15 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins.
Edition of 108. Signed by both Pissarro and Thornley in pencil and numbered "96" on the justification page. Printed by Atelier Becquet, Paris. Published by Boussod-Valadon, Paris. Scattered marginal spotting on many of the plates, well outside the image.
Pissarro was likely influenced to work with the lithographer Thornley through Degas and 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 (see lots 178-180). 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. Projects with Monet and Pissarro soon followed. Reed/Shapiro p. lvii (Degas).
