Roadside Trees with Orchard, by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) Ink

Roadside Trees with Orchard, by Edward J. Balthazar, Amer., (1890-1956) InkEtching, ca. 1945, Ed. 9 100, 5 5 8 x 6 7 8, signed Balthazar in plate lower right, and signed and numbered in pencil, some discoloration at platemark left and right with a mat line, trimmed to 1 8 outside platemark top and sides, 3 8 on bottom, a rich impression with some drypoint burr showing in the grass and trees, printed on a warm white wove paper.

very faint mat line from previous mount

on smooth cool gray wove china paper

but 18 impressions for artists and collaborators

on antique warm white wove paper

small but adequate margins

(my standard website catalogue photographs document a print with margins as they appear once matted

plus 42 proofs

The lithographs were drawn and proofed by Matisse in 1945-7

Amercian Book Company

7-9/16 x 2-5/8

This is a scarce and very fine example of her work

5-3/8 x 15-3/8