Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JACQUES VILLON
Femme assise, vue de dos.

Pencil and reddish brown crayon on heavy cream wove paper, circa 1905. 470x580 mm; 18 1/2x23 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. With an impression of En Visite (1re planche), aquatint and drypoint, 1905, verso (Ginestet/Pouillon 130). The aquatint signed in pencil, lower right.

The aquatint is one of only several proofs. We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years.