?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR Lassitude.
Color woodcut printed in pink, orange, gray and black on cream wove Japan paper, 1912. 240x268 mm; 9 1/2x10 1/2 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3). One of only 5 impressions in this state, aside from the edition of 35 in the third state printed by Féquet (only impressions from the first and second states were printed by the artist). Signed, dedicated and numbered 5/5 in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce woodcut, with strong, fresh colors.
We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Laboureur 682.
