Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Les Matelots Ivres.

Woodcut on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1912. 353x350 mm; 14x13 3/4 inches, wide margins. First state (of 2). One of only 2 impressions in this state, aside from the edition of 135 in the second state published in Quatre Images Bretonnes. Signed and numbered 1/2 in blue pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this large, extrtemely scarce woodcut. Laboureur 681.