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("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)

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Zincograph colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio trimmed), Dessins lithographiques: suite of ten lithographs on zinc sometimes called "the Volpini Suite" because they were shown " sur demande" "dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars" during the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (probably beginning June 10 the opening at Volpini's of L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste"
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Dessins lithographiques: suite of ten lithographs on zinc sometimes called "the Volpini Suite" because they were shown " sur demande" "dans le local de M. Volpini au Champ-de-Mars" during the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (probably beginning June 10 the opening at Volpini's of L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste", Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Fund 1922
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Title: ("Leda") Design for a Plate: Shame on Those Who Evil Think (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) ; cover illustration for the "Volpini Suite" entitled Lithographic Drawings (Dessins lithographiques)
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Zincograph colored by hand with watercolor and gouache on chrome yellow wove paper; mounted on marbled paper applied to millboard (cover of print portfolio trimmed), Dessins lithographiques: suite of ten lithographs on zinc sometimes called "the Volpini Suite" because they were shown " sur demande" "dans le local de M.
Volpini au Champ-de-Mars" during the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (probably beginning June 10 the opening at Volpini's of L'Exposition de Peintures du Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste".

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