Pierre GATIER
(1878 Toulon – 1944 Joigny)
L'Avenue du Bois de Boulogne – 1911
Colour aquatint and etching on thick wove paper. Edition of 125. Bearing the blind stamp by "Cercle de la Librarie", Paris (Lugt 438). Signed and numbered in pencil. Size of sheet: 48.5 x 62.5 cm.
Felix Gatier 79.
Pierre Gatier: L'Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
Gatier made a name for himself with aquatint prints of precise vision of contemporary life, and of elegant life of Paris in the times of the Belle Epoque. His first important collector was a important art collector and famous couturier Jacques Doucet (1853-1929) whom he met in 1908, and who developed a lasting interest in Gatier's work and acquired many of his engravings. Gatier’s prints represent an invaluable testimony of the fashions of the time.