Prints and Multiples
Prints and Multiples
PORTFOLIO LES PEINTRES-GRAVEURS (CF. JOHNSON PP. 127-155)
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September 17, 04:10 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 1,000,000 GBP
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PORTFOLIO
LES PEINTRES-GRAVEURS (CF. JOHNSON PP. 127-155)
The very rare, complete portfolio of the first album, comprising 13 lithographs (11 printed in colours), four etchings (two printed in colours), two drypoints (printed in colours), two woodcuts (one printed in colours) and one embossing, 1896, 16 impressions signed in pencil, four impressions signed in blue or red crayon (two unsigned), 17 impressions numbered variously (five unnumbered), Johnson records that the edition was 100, with the original title page and table of contents, published by Ambroise Vollard, with the publisher's monogram on the title page, on various papers
smallest sheet (Théo van Rysselberghe, Le Café-Concert): 276 by 320mm 11 by 12⅝in
largest sheet (Georges Auriol, Jeune Femme assise): 567 by 424mm 22¾ by 16¾in
Acquired in Paris in the 1920’s; thence by descent to the present owners
The portfolio comprises the following prints:
Georges Auriol, Jeune Femme assise (Johnson 3)
Albert Besnard, La Rêveuse (J. 7; Delteil 66)
Jacques-Emile Blanche, Jeunes Filles lisant (J. 8)
Pierre Bonnard, La petite Blanchisseuse (J. 11; Bouvet 40)
François Rupert Carabin, La Statuette (J. 20)
Maurice Denis, La Visitation (J. 30; Cailler 94)
Ignace-Henri Fantin-Latour, Vénus et l’Amour (J. 39; Hédiard 131)
Armand Guillaumin, Les Rochers rouges (J. 61)
René Georges Hermann-Paul, Les petites Machines à écrire (J. 64)
James Pitcairn-Knowles, Le Bain (J. 97)
Gustave Leheutre, Jeune Fille au piano (J. 67)
Alexandre Lunois, Danseuse espagnole (J. 72)
Charles Maurin, Étude de Femmes nues (J. 81)
Edvard Munch, Le Soir [Angst] (J. 84; Woll 63; Schiefler 61)
Odilon Redon, La Méditation (J. 101; Memmerio 158)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mére et Enfant (J. 106; D. 10)
József Rippl-Ronaï, La Fête au Village (J. 119)
Jan Toorop, La Dame aux Cygnes (another work illustrated) (J. 142)
Théo van Rysselberghe, Le Café-Concert (J. 136)
Suzanne Valadon, Étude de nus (J. 144)
Félix Vallotton, Le Premier Janvier (J. 145; Godefroy 165)
Édouard Vuillard, Le Jardin des Tuileries (J. 153)