Sep 23, 2014 - Sale 2357

Sale 2357 - Lot 214

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Nègres Américains à Saint-Nazaire.

Engraving, 1917-20. 155x126 mm; 6 1/8x5 inches, wide margins. First state (of 2). Edition of approximately 28. Signed in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this very scarce engraving.

We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Laboureur 180.

With--Two preparatory drawings for the engraving in pen and brown encre de Chine on thin wove paper. One 291x208 mm; 11 3/8x8 1/8 inches; the other 281x207 mm; 11x8 1/8 inches. One with the artist's crab monogram ink stamp, lower right recto (not in Lugt).