Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings - Sale 2422, September 22, 2016

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137 ● THÉOPHILE STEINLEN
Baigneuse en plein air .
Etching on cream laid paper, 1911. 343x248
mm; 13 1/2x9 3/4 inches, full margins. First state
(of 7), before the additional shading in
aquatint. Signed and dedicated “à Eug.
Delâtre” in pencil, lower right. A superb,
early impression of this scarce etching.
Eugène Delâtre (1864-1938), the dedicatee,
was both a printmaker and printer, who
pulled impressions of etchings by artists such
as Renoir,Cassatt,Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen
and, in the early 1900s, Picasso. Crauzat 110.
[1,000/1,500]
138 ● PIERRE PUVIS DE
CHAVANNES
Femme nue assise.
Charcoal with brush and ink and wash on
brown wove paper on card.230x175 mm;9 1/8x7
inches. Signed in charcoal, lower left recto.
Ex-collection the artist J.AldenWeir, Conn-
ecticut; thence by descent; private collection.
[2,500/3,500]
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