Baigneuses (Le Jour)
Camille Pissarro
Baigneuses (Le Jour)
Lithograph
c. 1895
An original hand-signed Camille Pissarro Lithograph print.
(Women Bathing:Day)
c. 1895
Original zinc plate lithograph printed in black ink on blue tinted Ingres d’ Arches laid paper, mounted on stiff white wove paper bearing the “Sainte Marie” watermark.
Hand signed in pencil on the mount just below the image lower right C. Pissarro.
A beautifully tonally printed lifetime impression of the only state of this extremely rare lithograph. From the edition of only 20, annotated “no 14” on the mount just below the image lower left (ther were an additional 2 or 3 trial proofs, for an overall edition of only 22 or 23, there are no posthumous impressions. Titled on the mount lower center “baigneuses (le jour).”
Catalog: Delteil 151
5 1/4 x 7 15/16 inches
Sheet Size: 10 3/8 x 14 3/16 inches
This lithograph was illustrated in Graphischen Kunst, Vienna (Volume 31, 1908). The canceled zinc plate was presented to the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1930.
