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Jacques Villon, L' Italienne, Modigliani, Etching

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Jacques Villon, L' Italienne, Modigliani, Etching
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Artist: Jacques Villon, French (1875 - 1963)

Title: L' Italienne ( after Amadeo Modigliani)

Year: c. 1950

Medium: Color Aquatint Etching, stamp signed Modigliani

Edition: 65/200

Image Size: 19 x 12 inches

Frame Size: 23 x 16 inches
Found./Pub.: Chalcographie de Louvre, pub.
Ref.: GinestetPouillon, 650 (Villon) Note: Modigliani made no
prints himself. The only large-scale Modigliani colour print which exists
which is not a simple reproduction is this colour aquatint made by Jacques
Villon. In the mid 1920's Villon, whose own prints were already widely
admired and collected, was commissioned by the dealer Bernheim-Jeune to make
a series of interpretative colour etchingsbased on paintings both by the
great Impressionists, such as Manet, Cezanne and Renoir, and also by other
major painters of his period, many of whom were his friends, such as
Picasso, Bonnard. Matisse and Dufy. Villon had known Modigliani in the years
between 1910 and his death in 1920, and his empathy with his work is very
apparent in this aquatint derived from the famous painting 'L'Italienne'.
This aquatint was first issued by Bernheim-Jeune in 1927/28. The first
edition was 200 impressions, signed with a stamp signature authorised by
Modigliani's estate, and numbered in pencil.The plate was subsequently
deposited with the archive of the Chalcographie du Louvre, who printed a
further edition, unsigned and with no numbering and it is from this edition
that our present work comes.