a very good impression of the extra edition of 60 aside from that of 200, with colour variations, of one of the most striking of Clavé's early lithographs; printed on Arches paper in the studio of Jacques and Edmond Desjobert in Paris; published by La Guilde de la Gravure, Paris & Geneva (with their blindstamp); on Arches paper with full margins
a superb impression, the colours bright and fresh;
in excellent condition

the Guilde de la Gravure, Paris & Geneva, who published nearly a thousand prints by prominent international artists and which later became L'Oeuvre Gravée , directed by Nesto Jacometti and Pierre Cailler; for a period of nearly 30 years these two organizations led the world in issuing prints by such famous artists as Appel, Campigli, Clavé, Friedlaender, Hayter, Marini, Laurens, Matta, Severini, Singier, Tamayo, Zao Wou-Ki, Sugai and very many others; most have become valued collectors' items

this lithograph must have been inspired by Maria Sanmarti (1886-1959), Antoni Clavé's mother. She was born in Barcelona and followed her son to Paris where he had gone in 1939, in 1942 . She was partially paralysed and became a painter in order to encourage Antoni in his career; she was well known for her colourful still lifes in gouache and lithography