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GEORGES BRAQUE Théogonie.
Etching on wove Hollande Van Gelder paper, 1932. 368x297 mm; 14 1/2x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in brown pencil and numbered 7/50 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Vollard, Paris. From La Théogonie d'Hesiode. A superb, dark impression of this very scarce etching with rich plate tone.
Only 10 of the projected 16 etchings for the series were printed and editioned prior to Vollard's untimely death in 1939. These were dispersed piecemeal on the market after 1939. Maeght resumed publication of the series in 1954 and had the 16 etchings printed by Georges Visat, Paris, after the remarqués or outer borders had been cut down. Early impressions, with the remarqués and both signed and numbered, are extremely scarce. Vallier 20 c.
