A very good impression of this rare print, printed with a light veil of plate tone.

Le Policeman represents a critical turning point in Laboureur's work: the moment when he full integrated cubism within his own unique style. Years after creating this masterpiece the critic Michel Cournot wrote in Le Monde: "Cette scene de la rue fait date dans l'histoire de la gravure francaise. Parce que d'un coup, sans crier gare, Laboureur vient de trouver sa maniere, d'inventer son style bien a lui."

The importance of this print was underlined in 1988 with the publication of the definitive catalogue raisonne of the prints by Sylvain Laboureur. A small posthumous edition of this print was printed, numbered 15-25 of 25, each with a special "cachet du crab," dated, and identified by the catalogue's author; the plate was then cancelled.