Frontispiece for Planches de Salut, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Louis+Marcoussis&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Louis Marcoussis</a>, 1931.<ul><li>Louis Marcoussis (Polish-French, 1883-1941).</li><li>Etching and engraving on chine collé on Arches paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 2, this being 2 and the third state of the edition's trial proofs.</li><li>Printed by Lacourière, Paris, 1931.</li><li>Published by Jeanne Bucher, Paris.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This work is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marcoussis" in the lower left corner.&nbsp;It is hand numbered 2/2 and inscribed "3 Etat" (third state, out of three printed) in pencil lower margin.&nbsp; This is one of the 10 etchings that Marcoussis created for the portfolio Planches de Salut.&nbsp;The portfolio was published by Jeanne Bucher, Paris in a limited edition of 71 copies in which the individual etchings were not signed. This impression is a rare trial proof of the third state (of three). Each one of the states had only two trial proofs that were signed by the artist. The etchings were printed by Lacourière, Paris in 1931.&nbsp;In Planches de Salut, Marcoussis pays homage to his favorite writers, such as Baudelaire, Dostoevski, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, and Gerard de Nerval.

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