JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 12 March 2024 - 10:00 AM start
Jacques de Villon (French 1875-1963) aquatint etching after a painting by Pablo Picasso (Spain/France 1881-1973),
Lot Details
'Mother and Child' (originally painted in 1901), Chalcographie de Louvre edition. 645 x 420mm. Signed ‘Picasso’ centre left in the plate. Chalcographie de Louvre blind stamp, lower centre below plate. Note: In 1920, the artist Jacques de Villon was commissioned by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to create aquatint engravings based on the canvases of several important painters including Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, and even Villon himself. Villon employed a painstaking and time-consuming 18thC colour engraving method using three and sometimes four plates to complete the final proof, in an effort to create a final print as true as possible to the original painting. After the original run of about 200 prints (plus several artist proofs) for the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, these plates were acquired by the Chalcographie du Louvre, which reissued an unknown number of the Villon prints in the mid-20th century, prior to Villon's death, this print is one from this edition.
