Property Formerly in the Lefebvre-Foinet Family Collection, Paris
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Jacques Villon
Table d’échecs, for Die Schaffenden (Chessboard, from The Creators) (G. & P. E292)
Estimate
$7,000–9,000
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1920
Etching, on wove paper, with margins, a rich, velvety impression.
I. 8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.3 x 16.2 cm)
S. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (27.3 x 21.6 cm)
S. 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (27.3 x 21.6 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated indistinctly in pencil, one of a very few rare state proofs, before the additional work on the two chess pieces, the diamond at the bottom center of the chess board, two of the chess squares at the left center and before steel-facing of the plate and erasing the lines extending into the bevels, before the edition of 125 published by Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, Potsdam, framed.