Jacques Villon, Composition, Les Peintres Mes Amis, Etching

Condition: Pre-Owned
Etching on vlin dArches paper. Paper size: 15 x 11 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by ditions d'art Les Heures Claires, Paris; printed by Manuel Robbe, Paris, May 20, 1965. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The lithographs of Derain and Van Dongen were shot by Lucien Dtruit; those of Dufy, Matisse, Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cavailles, Terechkovitch and Carzou were shot by Mourlot Frres; those of Picasso and Buffet were shot by P.J. Ballon; Mir's was shot in l'atelier Arte, who also printed, in phototypy, the frontispice. The Villon and Zadkine etchings were shot by Manuel Robbe; Braque's was shot by A. and P. Crommelynck; the illustrations of Vlaminck, Rouault, Pascin and Utrillo were engraved on wood and shot by Raymond Jacquet. Andr Warnod's texts, collected by his daughter, Jeanine Warod, were composed by hand in De Roos de corps 24 and printed in Paris on the presses of Daragns. Finished printing on May 20, 1965. Justification of the draw: 3 examples on grand vlin dArches with the inked coppers of an illustration in taille-douce; a silk test of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a decomposition of the colors of a lithograph; a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered 1-3. 16 examples on grand vlin dArches with a silk proof of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a decomposition of the colors of a lithography; a complete suite on Arches of illustrations, numbered from 4 to 19. 21 examples on grand vlin dArches comprising of a silk proof of two lithographs; the four illustrations engraved on wood, framed; a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered from 20 to 40. 40 examples on grand vlin dArches with a complete suite on Arches of the illustrations, numbered from 41 to 80. 170 examples on grand vlin dArches, numbered from 81 to 250

JACQUES VILLON (1875-1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Among Villon's greatest achievements as a printmaker was his creation of a purely graphic language for cubism an accomplishment that no other printmaker, including his fellow cubists Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque, could claim.
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