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Laundry (La lessive)
Emile Bernard, 1889 (production), 1952 (edition of photomechanical reproduction)

Laundry (La lessive)

1889 (production), 1952 (edition of photomechanical reproduction), Emile Bernard (1868 - 1941)

woodcut in black, coloured by hand with watercolour, on wove paper, 28 cm x 45.6 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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Object number
p1373V2000
Edition
120/200
Dimensions
28 cm x 45.6 cm, 10.7 cm x 39.3 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Morane 8

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E B by Bernard, Emile
number
120/200
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kna [?] h31716 81

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  • Caroline Boyle-Turner, Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven : prints and paintings, 1989, p.68
  • [auteurs André Cariou, MaryAnne Stevens, Antoine Terrasse], L' aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin, 2003, p. 132-133
  • Robert L. Herbert, Peasants and "Primitivism" : French prints from Millet to Gauguin, 1995, p. 82
  • Voorw. C. Griffith Mann, Axel Rüger ; Heather Lemonedes, Belinda Thomson, Agnieszka Juszczak ; met bijdragen van Chris Stolwijk, Moyna Stanton, Paul Gauguin : the breakthrough into modernity, 2009, p. 153, 157, 231, 238

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