Mar 06, 2008 - Sale 2138

Sale 2138 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
Le Chapeau Épinglé (3e planche).

Etching and drypoint, circa 1894. 117x82 mm; 4 5/8x3 1/4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 2), the first published edition. From Gustave Geoffroy, La Vie Artistique, Paris, 1894.

Bound in the book, with complete text and original printed paper wrappers.

A superb, early impression, with burr on the flower pinned to the hat, on the hands and fold in the right sleeve of the girl pinning the flower to the hat, on the eyes of the girl to the right and elsewhere. Delteil 5.