Mar 02, 2017 - Sale 2437

Sale 2437 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Les Matelots Ivres.

Woodcut on thin, cream laid Japan paper, 1912. 353x350 mm; 14x13 3/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). Edition of approximately only 5, from an intended edition of 40 and before the edition of 135 published in Quatre Images Bretonnes. Signed and numbered 2/40 in blue pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this large, extrtemely scarce woodcut. Laboureur 681.