Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 784

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JACQUES VILLON (after Van Gogh)
Le Paysan.

Color aquatint, 1928. 400x316 mm; 15 7/8x12 1/2 inches, wide margins. Signed by Villon and numbered 40/200 in pencil, lower left. Published by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression with strong colors.

Villon's interpretation of 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.