Mar 02, 2004 - Sale 1999

Sale 1999 - Lot 669

Price Realized: $ 1,495
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JACQUES VILLON (after Van Gogh)
Le Paysan.

Color aquatint, 1928. 400x316 mm; 157/8x121/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 200. Signed by Villon in pencil, lower margin. Published by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A good impression with strong colors.

The current print reproduces Van Gogh's Portrait of Patience Escalier, a shepherd in Provence, painted at Arles in 1888 and now in the Niarchos collection. Ginestet/Pouillon 653.