32. Raoul DuGardier
(1871-1954)

Sur la Plage

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DuGardier, Sur la Plage

Sur la Plage

Aquatint, and etching in color, 1904, 295 x 395 mm., B.N.Inv. Tome VII, p.155 (lacking), edition 60. Provenance: Charles Hessèle (Lugt 554). Very fine, fresh colored impression on Van Gelder thick wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 60. The print, though cited by the Bibliothèque Nationale in the Inventaire, was lacking in that collection as of 1954 (the year of publication of Tome VII of the Inventaire). Although not mentioned there, the plate was apparently later drastically cut down and issued in a large edition. The original, as here, far superior in all ways, has become quite scarce.