Nov 12, 2020 - Sale 2550

Sale 2550 - Lot 340

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GEORGES BRAQUE (after)
Nature Morte.

Color aquatint and etching, 1923. 585x215 mm; 23 1/8x8 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed by Braque and Villon and numbered 132/200 in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon, Paris. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression with strong colors.

Villon (1875-1963), the older brother of Marcel Duchamp (see lot 471 and lot 472), worked with Braque, Picasso (see lots 312-337) and Matisse (see lots 351-363), creating exquisite color aquatints based on some of their earlier, most important paintings. Ginestet/Pouillon 636 (Villon).