Femme en Buste Drypoint By Louis a altar Intaglio Art Reproduction 1975

Excellent condition. Louis Valtat (1869-1952) Valtat has depicted this turn-of-the-century woman with her piled-up hair, in the informal manner of the Intimists, Vuillard and Bonnard, who were friends of the artist from their student days at the Académie Julian in Paris. Though Valtat exhibited with the Fauves at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. the major influence on his work was his older friend, Renoir, who made a lithograph portrait of Valtat published by Vollard in 1911. This intaglio reproduction of Valtat's drypoint is printed by a modern method closely resembling the original process. It therefore retains a high fidelity to the original print from which it was taken for example, in the raised effect of the ink on the paper. To insure that it cannot be mistaken for anoriginal, the reproduction has been reduced fractionally in size and the platemark bears the blind stamp of the present publisher, Graphophile Associates. © 1975 Graphophile Associates