Nov 05, 2013 - Sale 2329

Sale 2329 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
VINCENT VAN GOGH (after)
Le Paysan.

Color aquatint, 1928. 400x316 mm; 15 7/8x12 1/2 inches, full margins. Signed by Villon and numbered 40/200 in pencil, lower left. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression with strong colors.

Villon's interpretation of Van Gogh's Portrait of Patience Escalier, a shepherd in Provence, painted at Arles in 1888 and now in the Niarchos collection. Ginestet/Pouillon 653.