Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 478

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEAN METZINGER (after)
Le Tasse de Thê.

Color aquatint and etching, 1929. 475x445 mm; 18 3/4x17 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed by Jacques Villon and numbered 31/200 in pencil, lower left, and signed by Metzinger in pencil, lower right. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression with strong colors.

Based on Metzinger's important Cubist oil painting, Tea Time (Woman with a Teaspoon), 1911, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950). Ginestet/Pouillon 666.