Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 462

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?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 28/200 in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression.

Villon (1875-1963), the talented older brother of Marcel Duchamp (see lot 488) worked with Braque, Picasso and Matisse (see lot 469), creating exquisite color aquatints based on some of their earlier, seminal paintings. Ginestet/Pouillon 636 (Villon).