Camille Pissarro
Baigneuses gardeuse d’Oies (Geese girls bathing), c1895
Colour etching
11.9 x 17.9 cm
4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in
4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in
Stamped with Pissarro’s initials (Lugt 613e)
£ 7,500.00
Delteil 119 ix/ix. Printed from multiple plates in black, red, yellow and blue inks on old laid paper. The 1930 unique Bon à tirer à onze épreuves proof, not signed...
Delteil 119 ix/ix. Printed from multiple plates in black, red, yellow and blue inks on old laid paper. The 1930 unique Bon à tirer à onze épreuves proof, not signed by Pissarro himself, but stamped with his monogram and annotated and signed twice in pencil by Jean Caillac. Thirteen impressions in all were printed in 1930. (Pissarro himself had printed 20 trial proofs in different states and about a dozen artist’s proofs in the final state.) Degas had revived Pissarro’s interest in monochrome printmaking in 1879. It was seeing Mary Cassatt’s suite of ten colour etchings in 1891, in their joint exhibition at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, that inspired Pissarro to make his five colour etchings. He printed some proofs but it was only in 1930 that the Pissarro family arranged a formal numbered edition, of 11 (plus trial proofs and 1 bon à tirer proof). They were printed by Alfred Porcaboeuf, under the supervision of Jean Caillac. Caillac retained for his personal collection the proofs which he had signed to authorise the printing.
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