36. Jean-Louis Forain
(1852-1931)

Loge de Danseuse

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Forain, Loge de Danseuse

Loge de Danseuse

Lithograph with hand retouching, ca. 1895, Guérin 46 bis, Faxon 229, 319 x 426 mm., ex collection Marcel Guérin (Lugt 1872b). The only impression. The work is a lithograph in black on an orange-brown ground, retouched in black chalk and with off-white highlights, apparently wiped. It is printed on a cream wove paper which has darkened on the front, with full margins showing inky fingerprints; a neatly mended tear in the left margin and a few tiny edge tears. In short, it is the very model of a trial proof and it appears to be a preliminary study for Guérin 46, which itself exists in only a few impressions. Guérin, in his catalog of Forain, refers to this impression (his collector’s mark is on the lower left corner of the sheet), the only one he mentions, as an épreuve retouchée. Faxon calls it a touched proof and unique. The work belongs to Forain’s Impressionist period and its fascination with dancers, before his later drastic change in style and subject matter. His signature appears in reverse in the stone at the lower left.

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