Saint-Tropez
Color lithograph on chine-collé on thick wove paper.
Ref: Bibliothèque Nationale - Inventaire du Fonds Français 30.
The size of the edition overall is somewhat uncertain, but likely about 100 to 120 total.
- There is a deluxe edition of 10 or 20, with a sailboat remarque printed in bister, below the bottom right image corner.
- It is probable that the regular edition, without this remarque, is 40. This edition is signed in blue or green pencil. It is signed in the lower right sheet corner.
- Our impression from a third edition signed in black, in the stone, lower right image corner. These impressions with darker colors, punchier than the ones in the edition mentioned above. The seems to be somewhat less common than the edition signed in pencil, and ours is numbered "no 48". It is unclear whether the numbering above 40 refers to our edition, or whether the numbering for our edition starts at 1. Expert Hélène Bonafous-Murat has stated an edition of 60, but we have not been able to verify this.
Published by Gustave Pellet, Paris.
Signed in the black stone within the image, as usual for this edition. Numbered in pencil in the lower right sheet corner.
Provenance: Henri M. Petiet, Paris. With his monogram stamp on the verso (Lugt 5031).
Very faint foxing in the support sheet, mostly visible on the verso. Not affecting the image. The colors bright in this beautiful impression.
