Jacques Villon, Marchands Quatres Saisons, Regards Sur Paris, Lithograph

Condition: Pre-Owned
Lithograph on vlin dArches paper. Paper size: 15.5 x 24 inches. Excellent condition, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: from the folio, Regards sur Paris, 1962. Published by Andr Sauret, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frres, Paris, January 22: 1963. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Original lithographs of Andr Beaudin, Georges Braque, Maurice Brianchon, Jean Carzou, Marc Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Andr Masson, Pablo Picasso, Kees van Dongen, Jacques Villon. Printed completed on January 22: 1963 on the presses de l'Imprimerie Nationale de France, Daniel Gibelin, director. Georges Arnoult, inspector of typography. This work was composed by hand in characters called "Romain du Roi Corps engraved in 1699 by Grandjean on the order of Louis XIV, the original lithographies were drawn by Mourlot Frres, and the stones erased after printing. Justification of the draw; one hundred and eighty examples on a grand vlin d'Arches dcomposant as follows: ten examples, numbered to the press from 1 to 10, including a sequel on japon nacr, the original lithographies signed by the artists and a sequel on Arches; twenty examples, numbered to the press from 11 to 30, including a suite on Arches of the original lithographies; one hundred and twenty examples, numbered from 31 to 150; thirty non-trade examples, marked H.C., reserved for the authors, artists and artisans of the folio. All colophons are signed by the ten authors and the ten artists.

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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