Artist:                     Jacques Villon (1875-1963) French

Title:                       "Les Cartes"

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.

Provenance:          Neal Adair Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999

Mr. Neal Prince

Mr. Neal Prince and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. ¹, ²

Sam Ripner Gallery

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.