Word: deman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealers know surprisingly little of the history of the picture. As far as is known, Rops executed it in but two forms: painting and drawing. The original Buveuse d'Absinthe was drawn in 1864, copied in etching by Fred Chevalier. In 1910 the drawing was in possession of Edward Deman of Brussels; the painting in the collection of Lord Rebuc of London. Why Rops, himself an able engraver, made no copies, whether other copyists worked on it, whether prints are available in the U. S., is a mystery. The TIME cut was made from a plate in the March...