SALE French Hand Colored Etching Vintage Signed

Fine Art : Etchings

 

For your consideration, I present a lovely pastoral French etching that has been hand colored and titled and signed by the artist,

In 1928, Sidney Zoltan Lucas founded "Camilla Lucas," which encompassed a wholesale art publishing house and a retail art gallery. This business was both wholesale and retail and dealt in reproductions of antique, modern and contemporary prints. It also sold original art including etchings, lithographs and paintings.

Starting in the 1930's and continuing into the 1950's, Sydney Lucas traveled to Europe periodically and contracted with French artists to publish their work under the banner of the "Paris Etching Society." Pieces published by Lucas are marked with a triangle with Lucas' initials inside and sometimes "PES" for the Paris Etching Society.

The various artists assigned names to the their images, then hand titled and signed them. Most had editions of 350 to 500.

The most important artist Lucas worked with was Salvador Dali. In fact, the Old Print Gallery was the first North American publisher of Dali's works, and the relationship continued with Phyllis Lucas after Sydney's death in the 1960's.

This etching is titled "Les Chauturiere" and was done by Pierre. When originally matted, the etching was attached permanently to the matte. I have had the etching rematted in a warm chocolate brown and retained a portion of the original matte so as not to destroy the integrity of the etching. This piece is copyrighted in 1937.

Size: Framed 13.5 X 16.5 inches

Medium: Hand Colored Signed Etching

Artist: Pierre

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Item ID: 203-07FA