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La Boudeuse
Sulking
Ginestet &
Pouillon E37
etching with aquatint,
1900, with extensive hand-coloring à
la poupée (with a dauber), on
medium-weight cream laid paper (with the "ARCHES" watermark), a splendid and
possibly unique impression of the only known state, printed with full
margins, signed lower right in pencil, two
short small ochre stains in the upper margin, and some unobtrusive
vertical creasing
to the right, otherwise in fine condition
P.179x288mm., S.
365x555mm.
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Provenance: a private
Parisian collection
The present impression of this
important print constitutes a exceptional version with variant colors:
dark charcoal gray, light brown, flesh, and light beige-gray for the
background. Ginestet
& Pouillon
unforunately do not mention or show the colors, but all of the
impressions that we have seen invariably show the skirt and hair a grayish-black, the laced
bodice rather bluish, occasionally with a slight lavender tint (from
overprinting the fleshtone) and the overall background a light slate
blue.
It is apparently quite rare
(it was lacking for example in the important Lucien Goldschmidt
catalogue of October-November 1970); in the catalogue raisonné, the
edition is given as comprising 30 impressions, but we personally have
not seen one that has numbering. Eric Gillis has only been able
to identify 11 impressions, and appears to question
the size of the edition s stated.
Here, Bernadette (one of
Villon's favorite models, as in
http://maitres-des-arts-graphiques.com/VILLON,%20Bernadette.html)
sprawled over a bed, seen from the
rear, is graphically refined and quite gesturally expressive.
There is preparatory drawing,
dating to the year prior (https://www.ader-paris.fr/lot/15304/2900469).
* E.g., those in museum collections,
such
as the National Gallery of Art
(https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66593.html), or the Des Moines Art Center
(https://emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org/objects/37700/la-boudeuse-woman-sulking)
or those of auction gallery catalogues, such as Sotheby's 30 June 1999,
Lot 411, or Lucien
Paris, on 4 November 2020
(https://www.lucienparis.com/lot/103994/13434582?offset=50&), which
reappears in the Gillis Goldman
Fine Art Catalogue 22,
February 2021, lot 34 (https://gillisgoldman.com/catalogue-22/)
