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| Jacques Villon (1875-1963), French, Acquatint and Lithograph, "Les Cartes", ca.1903, no.5/25 |
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| Jacques Villon (1875-1963), French, Acquatint and Lithograph, "Les Cartes", ca.1903, no.5/25 |
Artist:
Jacques Villon (1875-1963) French
Title:
"Les Cartes ou Reussite" (E.76)
Date:
1903
Medium: Lithograph
Materials: Colour Etching
and Acquaint on wove paper with original color added by the artist.
Markings: Signed, on
the print and in the margin, the item is numbered “5/25”
(Note: The National
Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. has 4/25 Lithograph)
Dimensions: 13-5/8" x 17-5/8" (Plat)
Dimensions: 19-3/8" x 25.0" (Sheet)
Framed:
Yes, item has remained in the original frame when acquired by Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill,
Jr. from Sam Ripner ¹.
Inventory
No: NAPT.1999.000019
Provenance: Neal Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999 (Deaccessioned from the Trust, as of 04/28/2011,
please refer to Sotheby's Print Auction sale on April 29, 2011 in which this item is being featured as one of the most important
and rare prints that will be offered in that scheduled Auction)
Mr. Neal A. Prince
Mr. Neal A.
Prince and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. ¹, ²
Sam Ripner Gallery,
New York, New York
Provenance:
Source documentation for the Fine Arts Appraisal for Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., May 12, 1964, Page 9/13
Footnote: Provenance
is fully noted within Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. (a/k/a Burt) insurance policy executed by Neal A. Prince in 1964 and is filed with the Smithsonian Institute American Archives
in Box 6, in Folders 13-18.
Footnote ¹:
Mr. Sam Ripner purchased this item in Paris. Mr. Ripner was a Dealer in Drawings and Prints with in his Gallery. The Gallery was
located at 1000 Fifth
Avenue, New York, New York, 10028 United
States.
Footnote ²:
This item was also published by the Smithsonian Institution Press and the National Museum of American Art, titled "Made
with Passion - The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art" copyrighted 1990, page 64 which shows
Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill's apartment with the item on the wall.
Jacques Villon (1875-1963) French
Msr. Villon
was born in Gaston Duchamp, France on July 31, 1875 in Normandy, France. Under his grandfather’s direction, Emile Frederic Nicolle that Jacques Villon
learned engraving and in the summer of 1894 he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Jacques Villon became quite famous and well
received throughout United States
and Europe and from the 1940's he was exclusively represented by the Galerie Louis Carre. Villion
received honors at various international exhibitions, including first prize at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1950. In 1953 he was exhibited in 1953 at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York; he was exhibited in
Paris in 1959. Jacques Villon died in Puteaux, France on June 9th, 1963.
| View of Mr. Prince's Bedroom and Livingroom |
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| Duplicated photograph from 1959 memiors of Mr. Neal A. Prince, New York |
Please seek out the Publication,
“Made with Passion – the Hemphill Folk Art Collection, in the National museum
of American Art” by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, and Published for
the National Museum of American Art, by the Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, London, ©
1990 Smithsonian Institution.
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| Made with Passion - The Hemphill Folk Art Collection, c.1990 |
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