Damville (Normandy) 1875 - 1963 Puteaux
 

Le Potin (final state), 1904

Gossiping

Drypoint and aquatint in colors

418 x 575 mm.; 16 1/2 x 22 5/8 inches

Signed in pencil lower right

References:

Auberty & Pérussaux no.85

Ginestet & Pouillon E. 96-III/III

Notes:

1. This is the 3rd and final State of this work.

1st State: about 445 x 625 mm. Only drypoint. Printed in light tan. Only shows the four women sitting.

2nd State: still about 445 x 625 mm. Additional work in background. Signature and date etched in plate. Just a few proofs in blue and black.

3rd State: plate now 418 x 575 mm. A rug has been added, as well as a dog in the lower-center of the composition, as well as a chest of drawers to upper right, as well as a coffee pot (which now hides the chair in the back). Colors now sanguine and predominately greenish. 50 impressions.

2. Yvonne Bon was the daughter of a Dr. Bon, Villon’s next-door neighbor on the rue Lemâitre in Puteaux. She eventually became the wife of Villon’s brother, the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. She posed for all four of the female figures depicted in this work.