Etching on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pur fil paper. Paper Size: 10.0625 x 8.25 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Du cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, Paris; printed by Thirot, Le Maître-Imprimeur, Paris, July 3, 1947. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), Du cubisme...was completed to print on July 3, 1947 by R. Girard & Cie for the typography and by the Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques for the plates in copperplate engraving, le maître, Thirot being presser. Du cubisme was completed to print on July 1, 1947. The draw includes: No. I. example on papier d'Auvergne with some states and two suites of the plates. No. II to XX. examples on papier d'Auvergne with two suites of the boards. No. XXI to XXXV. examples on papier d'Auvergne with a suite of plates. No. XXXVI to CDXXXV. examples on papier pur fil Lana. In addition, XX examples were printed on papier Lana, numbered in Roman numerals for the Dépôt Légal and collaborators. 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.