Old Women In Bruges No.29, by Emile Zoir, Swedish, (1867-1936)

Color Monotype, 1920's, 13-11/16 x  9-9/16, handling creases to margins, three repaired breaks ro bottom margin edge, spot of foxing to top right margin and considerable toning to margin within previous mat opening, weakness to platemark right and left and several tight horizontal ripples at image center from printing, signed in pencil lower right and titled bottom left margin edge, on cream laid watermarked paper 18-13/16 x 13-9/16. A dark and melancholic scene of two elderly woman, heads bent, hand drawing collars tight against the cold, a bare bent tree at right edge echoing the forms of the women, against a pale blue gray twilight sky.