Une artiste or La Femme au chevalet [An Artist or Woman at the Easel] by Jacques Villon

Aquatint printed in colours, 299 x 247 mm. Ginestet et Pouillon 40.

Very fine impression printed on laid paper, numbered 9/30 and signed Jacques Villon in blue pencil. Generally in good condition. Some very slight surface abrasions in the blank part of the subject recto and some on the back of the sheet. Three very small handling creases. Wide margins (sheet: 450 x 337 mm).

Edition of 30 impressions.

Gaston Duchamp arrived in Paris at the end of 1895. He took the name of Jacques Villon and created his first colour etchings in 1899, following the advice of his friend and neighbour Francis Jourdain. There are very few impressions of these first etchings, probably printed by Eugène Delâtre. In Woman at the Easel, the picture emerges solely thanks to flat tints in colour with outlines in aquatint.