Accession number
TMP 2023-96.61
Creator
Legrand, Louis, 1863-1951, printmaker.
Published
[Paris], [1909].
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Drypoint issued as one of a suite of 8 published prints, entitled "Les bars" (Paris : Gustave Pellet, 1909).
The 1st state of 4 as described by Arwas, on japon paper with remarque; possibly one of the 30 copies printed on japon paper for the 30 numbered copies of Les bars on japon.
The 1st state of 4 as described by Arwas, on japon paper with remarque; possibly one of the 30 copies printed on japon paper for the 30 numbered copies of Les bars on japon.
Description
1 print : drypoint ; image: 205 x 146 mm; plate mark: 287 x 146 mm; visible sheet: 425 x 297 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil and numbered "9/30".
Provenance
From the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Summary
Print shows a bar room where a man in a cloth cap sits on a barstool at right smoking a pipe, and two women stand engaged in conversation at left; with a remarque in the bottom margin of the head of a black woman in profile, wearing a large hat and facing to the right.
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