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Pierre-Auguste Renoir drypoint "La pensee"
Pierre-Auguste Renoir drypoint etching La pensee


 
$450.00


Item Code: 5010

Description
 
Medium: etching and drypoint (after the painting). This beautiful piece was etched by Emile Lequeux after Renoir, and published in Paris in 1904 by Gazette des Beaux-Arts; and is referenced in the Sanchez & Seydoux catalogue (entry 1904-14). Printed by Charles Wittmann on a thick japon paper, with a platemark (not shown here in this photo); the image measures 6 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches (165 x 138 mm). Plate-signed by Renoir, not hand-signed.

Condition: there is a collector's stamp from a previous owner pasted to the paper beneath the image. This is a superior impression from an early printing "without letters", and more rare than the final published state that had the publisher's inscription printed beneath the image.