Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

56 c CAMILLE PISSARRO La Charrue . Color lithograph on smooth cream wove paper, 1901. 215x151 mm; 8 1 / 2 x6 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3), before the artist’s signature on the stone and publication in Les Temps Nouveaux . One of approximately only 14 impressions in this state printed in colors, there were also approximately 14 monochromatic impressions in this state printed in a single color. Inscribed “ep. d’essai no. 9” in pencil, lower left. A superb impression with vibrant colors. This is the only color lithograph made by Pissarro; he evidently found color lithography to be insufficient as a medium for the representation of nature. This color lithograph was created as the frontispiece for the journal Les Temps Nouveaux , published by Jean Grave, Paris, to accompany the text of a lecture by Prince Kropotkin (1842-1921), the Russian activist and anarchist. Delteil 194. [3,000/5,000]