Sale 2507, Part I - Old Master Through Modern Prints, May 2, 2019

158  ÉDOUARD MANET Olympia . Etching on cream wove paper, 1867. 88x178 mm; 3 1 / 2 x7 inches, full margins. Sixth state (of 6). A very good, dark and well-inked impression with strong contrasts. Guérin 39; Harris 53. [2,500/3,500] 159 c ÉDOUARD MANET (after) Olympia . Color aquatint and etching, 1926. 407x585 mm; 15 3 / 4 x22 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Signed by Villon and numbered 67/100 in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A superb, dark impression. Ginestet/Pouillon 647 (Villon). [2,000/3,000] 160 c ÉDOUARD MANET (after) Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Color aquatint and etching, 1929. 500x630 mm; 19 5 / 8 x24 7 / 8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 75/200 by Villon in pencil, lower margin. Etched by Jacques Villon. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A superb, richly-inked impression with vibrant colors. During the 1920s, Villon created masterful color prints after paintings by artists as varied as Picasso, Renoir, Rousseau, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse, Dufy, Modigliani and others, along with this work after Manet’s seminal painting from 1862-63, now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Ginestet/Pouillon 668 (Villon). [2,000/3,000] 158