Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) La petite blanchiseuse (The little laundry Girl) Lithograph printed in three colours (dark green, brown and beige – the editioned print was in five colours), 1895-6, a trial proof before much of the black shading and outlining of the cobbles, the figure of the young girl worked over with watercolour, the dog’s hind legs and the cracks of the pavement touched with black crayon, on laid Japan, inscribed below in other hands Epreuve unique / dans cet état, a proof before the edition of 100 printed by A. Clot, published by A. Vollard, in Album des peintres-graveurs Paris Subject: 29.5 x 20 cm Provenance: P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1974 Literature: Roger-Marx 42; Bouvet 40; Johnson Vollard p.17-45; Ives/Giambruni/ Newman 48-51