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Adolphe Beaufrère (1876-1960) first saw the works of the avante-garde Pont-Aven school, in particular Gauguin and Sérusier, when he was 16. Inspired, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where, under the instruction of Gustave Moreau he was encouraged towards print-making. The present group of prints, which includes one previously unrecorded (lot 88), shows the breadth of experimentation which marked his career as a peintre-graveur. The two monotypes typify his main sources of inspiration, namely his native Brittany, and Algeria, where he lived between 1911 and 1913. His most famous composition, Femmes au Tub (lot 86), shows the influence Japanese prints, and the Cloisoniste style developed by the Pont-Aven school. This, like his other early woodcuts, were printed in very small editions, and are consequently very seldom seen on the market.

Adolph Beaufrère (1876-1960)

Femmes au Tub (Morane B-1; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes 1)

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Adolph Beaufrère (1876-1960)
Femmes au Tub (Morane B-1; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes 1)
woodcut in colours, circa 1902, on Japon, signed in pencil, with the artist's red monogram stamp, with margins, a thin area to the left of the subject, some soft creases to the upper left, further soft creases at the lower sheet corner, otherwise generally in good condition
B. 332 x 215mm., S. 345 x 220mm.

Provenance

acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrère, the artist's son

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