FRENCH MODERNISM Pencil Signed ~ SHIPWRECK, BRITTANY ~ 1938 Great Etching LISTED

Description: A handsome original etching executed in 1938 by well regarded French printmaker Jean Frelaut (1879-1954). The title of the print is "L'épave" (The Wreck), and it is pencil signed by the artist and numbered for a very small edition of 40, it is also signed and dated in the plate, the title is in pencil on reverse. This is a rich impression printed in black ink on off white wove paper, image measures 8 x 10 inches, sheet size is approx. 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. It is in excellent condition and ready for framing The Museum of Brittany has this print in its permanent collection: www.collections.musee-bretagne.fr/ark:/83011/FLMjo273767 Jean Frélaut (1879-1954) was a highly regarded French printmaker and painter. He grew up in the port town of Vannes in the Brittany. At 18, he went to Paris and entered Fernand Cormon's studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1897. He learned the techniques of etching and engraving from Marcel Beltrand and the American master, Donald Shaw MacLaughlan. Following service in WWI, Frelaut participated in the group Peintres Graveurs Indépendants, founded by Jean Émile Laboureur and Raoul Dufy in 1923. Frélaut was a very successful as a print maker, he received the prize for French engraving at the Venice Biennale of 1934. He is also known for having printed many of the etchings of Pablo Picasso. In the 1930s he returned to Brittany and was appointed curator of the Vannes museum 1937. The graphic work of Jean Frélaut is present in the collections of the Museum of Vannes and the Musée de Bretagne.

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