Nov 09, 2009 - Sale 2194

Sale 2194 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
EDOUARD MANET
Chapeau et Guitarre: Frontispice.

Etching and aquatint printed in black on blue wove paper, 1862-63. 231x219 mm; 9 1/8x8 5/8 inches, full margins. Second state (of 4). Edition of 50. Initialed and numbered "29" in ink. Ex-collection unknown collector, violet ink stamp with the initials EF verso (not in Lugt). A superb, richly-inked impression, extremely scarce in this issue.

We have not found another impression of the second state, initialed by Manet, at auction in the past 20 years. Guérin 62; Harris 39.