1966 After Henri Rousseau "M. Juniet's Pony Cart" First Edition Post-Impressionist Print

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A stunning vintage First Edition full color print after Post-Impressionist painting "M. Juniet's Pony Cart" (1908) by Henri Rousseau. Comes … more A stunning vintage First Edition full color print after Post-Impressionist painting "M. Juniet's Pony Cart" (1908) by Henri Rousseau. Comes from a rare First Limited Edition art folio of the artist, published in Milan, Italy in 1966 by Fratelli Fabbri Editori. Signed in the print. Numbered "IX". Printed on heavy paper. Detailed. Colors are deep and rich. Excellent condition - minor edge wear, never framed. Excellent condition - minor age wear on the white border, never framed.

Offset Post-Impressionist lithograph of "The Poet and His Muse", also known as "Portrait of Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin" (1909) by Henri Rousseau is printed on the other side. Signed in the print. Numbered "X". Printed on heavy paper. Detailed. Rich vivid colors. Excellent condition - never framed.

"M. Juniet's Pony Cart"
Overall 13.9"W x 10.4"H
Image: 11.10"W x 8.26"H
The original artwork is 129 cm x 97 cm, Paris, Louvre.

"The Poet and His Muse" Image: 7.6"W 11.5"H
Overall 10.4"W x 13.9"H
The original artwork is 149 cm x 97 cm, The Kunstmuseum Basel, the largest art museum in Switzerland

We got a glare on the Pony Cart images. Sorry about that.

On the subject of "The Poet and His Muse" lithograph:
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) was a French poet, writer and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent, a man who shaped the Parisian Avant-Garde, a friend of Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Delaunay, Louis Marcoussis, Paul Guillaume. Apollinaire had a five-years affair with Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956), a French artist and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d'Or.

Once, on September 7th of 1911, French police arrested poet Guillame Apollinaire for stealing the Mona Lisa. Apollinaire hadn’t actually taken the iconic treasure; however, a few days prior to his arrest, he had attempted to anonymously return a pair of ancient Iberian busts stolen for him and Pablo Picasso by their associate, Géry Piéret. Picasso, who modeled the central figures of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” on the bust Piéret procured for him, was also brought in for questioning. Miraculously, neither the painter nor the poet was charged with receiving stolen goods. If they had been, their status as foreigners in the French Republic would most certainly have resulted in their deportation. Luckily, lack of evidence and pressure from the Parisian art and literary establishments forced the police to release Apollinaire six days later — thereby consigning the episode to one of the wilder footnotes of art history rather than to one of its major chapters. less