Édouard Manet

Olympia - Sixth and Final State

1867

This is a drypoint and aquatint artwork by Jacques Villon. The artist signed in pencil on the lower right. As well as signed in plate at the top right of the image. This is a wonderful artwork of different intaglio processes being brought together in a beautiful almost seamless harmony. The thin pencil like markings and hair detailing are made using the Drypoint printmaking method. Whilst the color details around the girls are made using the Aquatint etching method. Jacques Villon shows his skills as a printmaker with the way these pieces line up perfectly and with how clean the rest of the plate is around the girls. An unnumbered impression, apart from the numbered edition of 50. Catalogue Raisonne E101, pg. 66-67 (Ginestet & Pouillon. It depicts two young girls. 15" x 11 1/2" art 25 1/8" x 20" frame French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon...

"Hunting" is an original etching and aquatint by Molly McKee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right, titled it lower center, and wrote the edition number (2/10) in the lower left. It depicts a few abstracted human figures in McKee's surreal and horror-inspired style. 11 3/4" x 9" art 24 7/8" x 17 1/2" frame This surreal etching...

"Hinting" is an original etching and aquatint made with Chine Colle by Molly McKee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right, titled it lower center, and wrote the edition numb...

"Demi-God of Discontent" is an original etching and aquatint made with Chine Colle by Molly McKee. The artist signed the piece in the lower right, titled it lower center, and wrote the edition number (2/10) in the lower left. It depicts a few abstracted human figures in McKee's surreal and horror-inspired style. 11 3/4" x 9" art 24 7/8" x 17 1/2" frame This surreal etching...