JACQUES VILLON La Parisienne, tournée à droite (première planche).
Group of 8 color etchings with aquatint, soft ground etching and drypoint, 2 with additions and hand coloring in watercolor and ink, 1902-3. Each signed in pencil, lower right.
The first impression, 477x372 mm; 18 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins, printed in dark grayish black ink.
The second impression, 477x372 mm; 18 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins, printed in grayish black.
The third impression, 477x372 mm; 18 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins, printed in colors. Inscribed "Nouvelle planche avec fonds" in pencil, lower left.
The fourth impression, 477x372 mm; 18 3/4x14 3/4 inches, full margins, printed in brownish olive. With hand coloring in watercolor and gouache on the face and chair and with another plate superimposed to mark the subsequent reduction of the plate at the right and lower sides.
The fifth impression, 453x340 mm; 18x13 3/8 inches, full margins, printed in colors. Inscribed "Essai" in pencil, lower left. With hand coloring in black gouache on either side of the woman's head.
The sixth impression, 458x338 mm; 18 1/8x13 3/8 inches, full margins, printed in colors. A hitherto unrecorded version of the subject, with different aquatint and etching plates. Inscribed "Essai" in pencil, lower left. With hand coloring in brown watercolor beneath the chair. With an artist's proof of En Visite, drypoint and aquatint, 1905 (Ginestet/Pouillon 130), signed in pencil, verso.
The seventh impression, 462x340 mm; 18 1/4x13 1/2 inches, full margins, printed in green. Inscribed "Etat" in pencil, lower left.
The eighth impression, 462x340 mm; 18 1/4x13 1/2 inches, full margins, printed in green, red and brown.
Another set of proofs for this subject, which was never printed as an edition, unlike La Nouvelle Parisienne, color aquatint and etching, 1902, is described in Parshall, et als., The Unfinished Print, Washington, DC, 2001, pp. 73-82. A set of 5 trial proofs of this subject was sold at Christie's, New York, May, 1999, lot 84. Ginestet/Pouillon 74.
