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ARISTIDE MAILLOL Eve ou Femme agenouillée, un...

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ARISTIDE MAILLOL Eve ou Femme agenouillée, un genou relevé, etching, sheet 24.5 x 31 cm (Guérin 330 i/ii, Johnson 77), a fine and rare proof with sketches and point trials, cut within the copperplate mark (notably on the sides and top), signed and dedicated (the dedicatee's name erased), edition of 2 proofs according to Guérin but 3 proofs were sold in the sale Trésors du coffre Vollard, Paris, Sotheby's, 29 June 2010, n°125-127. Subject probably engraved for an album of nudes planned by Vollard but not realized, to which Dufy, Bonnard, Forain, Picasso, Rouault were to collaborate