J.E.LABOUREUR Hand Signed Engraving Cubism French 1924

JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR 1877-1943
Nantes 1877 - 1943 Pénestin (French)

Title: At the Confectioners | Chez le Pâtissier, 1924

Technique: Original Hand Signed Colour Engraving on J Perrigot Arches Wove Paper

Paper size: 28.2 x 22.5 cm. / 11.4 x 8.9 in.
Image size: 14 x 11.5 cm. / 5.5 x 4.5 in.

Additional Information: This engraving is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Laboureur" in the lower right margin.
The work is also signed in the image “Laboureur” in the lower left.
This is the third state of three, with the addition of the title in the lower image. This work is from the edition of 105 signed and unnumbered impressions.
The J Perrigot Arches watermark is visible in the right margin.
The subject of the composition is believed to be the Pâtisserie Mangin, Rue de Havre, Paris.

Note:
Laboreur learned engraving with Auguste Lepère and lithography with Toulouse-Lautrec (1895-1898). Although his works remained figurative, he discovered cubism and often used geometrization and simplification of forms. In 1923, Jean-Émile Laboureur founded the Association of painters and engravers who promoted etching, lithography, engraving or xylography.

Literature: Laboureur, S. (1989). Jean-Emile Laboureur: Gravures et Lithographies. Catalogue Raisonné of the Graphic Work. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy
Reference: L 278 III (of III)

Condition: Excellent condition. Remnants of hinging at the upper and lower left sheet edge, verso.