LOUIS AUGUSTE LEGRAND
1863 Dijon – 1951 Livry-Gargan
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Morceau de sucre [The cube of sugar] – 1912
Drypoint on laid paper bearing the “Pellet et Legrand" surmounted by Swann and Fleur-de-lys watermark. Size of sheet: 41 x 41.5 cm. Hand signed in pencil in the margin lower right, also signed in the plate lower right. Edition of 40. Published by Gustave Pellet, Paris, with his monogram stamp (Lugt 1193) in red ink in margin also lower right.
Arwas A437, Exteens 323, IFF 196.
Beautiful impression in mint condition, with full margins.
- Sold.
Louis August Legrand: The Cube of Sugar
The brilliant draughtsman and printmaker Louis Legrand is one of the most famous artists of the French Belle Époque, a time of freedom, progress and joie de vivre. Legrand depicted Paris life, its cafés, theatres, dancers and the decadent world of the beau monde. He became one of the most admired and sought after artists of the era and was perhaps the most successful printmaker of his period in Paris.