Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp, known as) (1875-1963 )The Little Balancer. 1914. Drypoint. 162 x 220. Ginestet et Pouillon 287. Very nice proof of the first edition on ivory laid paper, annotated "tiré à 50" and signed in pencil. A few small marginal foxing. All margins. Of this quasi-cubist plate Villon says: "At first it was a direct study of an acrobat, and then by simplification, by synthesis, my figure was only lines and volumes expressing the idea of balance. It was still my acrobat but it no longer represented an acrobat. "(Denis Martin, Jacques Villon, la donation Charles S. Parent donation, Musée du Québec, 1992, p. 43).