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GEORGES BOTTINI
La Soupeuse
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Color etching, drypoint and roulette on Japan paper with hand coloring, printed in the manner
of a monotype, 1903. 180x205 mm; 7x8
1
/
4
inches, wide (full ?) margins. Signed, titled, dated
and numbered 1/40 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Sagot, Paris, with the blind stamp
(Lugt 1921, lower right recto).A superb impression of this very scarce etching. Southard 57.
[5,000/8,000]
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GEORGES BOTTINI
Personnages au Clair de Lune
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Color woodcut on buff Japan paper, circa 1895-96. 148x87 mm; 5
7
/
8
x3
1
/
2
inches, wide
(full ?) margins. Signed in pencil, lower right, with anatomical sketches in brown crayon,
lower left and verso and annotated in blue crayon, verso. A superb impression of this
extremely scarce woodcut with vibrant colors.
We have found only two other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Southard 4.
[3,000/5,000]
147 JAMES ENSOR
Les Jouers
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Etching on imitation Japan paper, 1895. 117x159 mm; 4
3
/
4
x6
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed
and dated in pencil, lower right. A superb, well-inked impression of this very scarce
etching. Delteil 92; Elesh 94;Taevernier 93.
[4,000/6,000]
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