Etching on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 11 x 8.75 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Vers un monde volage. Illustré de dix eaux-fortes originales hors texte par Marcel Gromaire, 1926. Published by Éditions Marcel Seheur, Paris; printed by Atelier d'art Paul Haasen, Paris, September 15, 1926. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album, printed on the presses of Marcel Seheur for typography and by Paul Haasen, for the etchings of Marcel Gromaire, was prepared with the following justification: 1 example with the author's drawings and the various states, 25 examples in japon Shidzuoka, numbered from 1 to 25, and 225 examples on vélin d'Arches, numbered from 26 to 250, plus 20 examples of non-commerce including 7 in japon, numbered from I to XX. Finished printing on the fifteenth of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, Lucien Boucher being artistic director. MARCEL GROMAIRE (1892-1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects and is often associated with Social Realism, but Gromaire can be said to have created an independent oeuvre distinct from groups and movements. He was in the milieu of Picasso, Chagall, Miro, and Matisse.