Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Le Rentrée au Port.

Woodcut on tissue-thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1913. 250x360 mm; 9 7/8x14 1/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. First state (of 2). One of only 5 impressions in this state, aside from the edition of 135 in the second state published in Quatre Images Bretonnes. Signed, titled, inscirbed "premier état" and numbered 1/5 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut. Laboureur 698.