Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in pencil and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 20.5 x 17 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Jacques Villon, Huit Lithographies Originales, 1962. Published by Louis Carré, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, April 7, 1962. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The edition of this folio has been directed by Marcel Jacno. The original lithographs by Jacques Villon were printed by Mourlot Frères. The text was composed in Romain du roi and shot on the presses of L'Imprimerie nationale. Printing was finished on April 7, 1962. It was taken from this work XXV examples on Japon Impérial Nacré lettered from A to Y; CLXXV examples on vélin d’Arches, numbered from I to CLXXV; XXV non-commerce copies on vélin d’Arches, numbered from I to XXV. It was also pulled XXV suites of lithographs on Japon Impérial Nacré; XXV suites of lithographs on vélin d’Arches. JACQUES VILLON (1875-1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Among Villon's greatest achievements as a printmaker was his creation of a purely graphic language for cubism – an accomplishment that no other printmaker, including his fellow cubists Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque, could claim.