Jacques VILLON
(1875 Damville – 1963 Puteaux)
La Femme au Chien - 1924
Etching and aquatint printed in colours after Pierre Bonnard. Second (final) state in colours, signed in pencil by Bonnard, numbered 69/200 (there were nine impressions in the first state in black only), published by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Size of sheet: 63.3 x 37.8 cm.
Ginestet & Pouillon 643.
Jacques Villon: La Femme au Chien
In 1922, the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune commissioned Villon to produce a series of colour aquatints after 38 major nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings. Artists who were alive at the time of the printing collaborated with Villon and signed the prints, like in the case of our print. The project took ten years to complete.
This work relates to Pierre Bonnard's painting "Intérieur ou Femme au Chien" (1920) now in Musée d'Orsay in Paris.