Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
25e Rue, New York.

Etching printed in dark brownish black on cream wove paper, 1907. 190x152 mm; 7 1/2x6 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2), with the drypoint work in the sky upper left. Edition of only approximately 15 lifetime impressions (there were also 8 posthumous impressions printed in 1989). Signed, titled "Coin de rue Sixth Avenue, New York" and inscribed "no. 6" in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early etching. Laboureur 69.