Edgar Degas - La Fete De La Patroness - Engraving - La Maison Tellier - Guy De Maupassant -1934 -

RARE ENGRAVING ON COPPER ENHANCED WITH COLOR AFTER A MONOTYPE BY EDGAR DEGAS ENTITLED "LA FETE DE LA PATRONNE" - PRINT ON JAPAN PAPER MADE FOR THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK BY GUY DE MAUPASSANT " LA MAISON TELLIER "IN 1934 - ENGRAVING MADE BY MAURICE POTIN - SINGLE PRINT OF 325 COPIES PUBLISHED BY AMBROISE VOLLARD - COPY IN VERY GOOD CONDITION - Edgar DEGAS - Maupassant: LA MAISON TELLIER (1934). x 260 mm) in sheets, filled illustrated cover. Fine illustration table in folder. The most famous illustrated edition of Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece - 19 ENGRAVINGS ON COPPER IN OUT-TEXT. IN COLORS ON JAPAN - 17 woodcuts including some inset engraved by Aubert Unique edition of 325 numbered copies on Rives vellum (no. 217). The engravings were made by Maurice Potin based on the monotypes of Edgar Degas. (1834-1917) purchased by Ambroise Vollard from René Degas before the sale of the painter's studio. Vollard undertook the publishing of two works: La Maison Tellier by Guy de Maupassant and Mimes des Courtisanes by Pierre Louÿs. He turned to the painter-engraver Maurice Potin to reproduce on copper these brothel scenes that Degas himself called his “little dishes of the day”. Mr. Potin succeeds wonderfully in penetrating the sensitivity of the drawing and the subtlety of Degas's tones. The company took the two men 6 years to publish the two works.