Lassitude (Laboureur 682)

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Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943)
Lassitude (Laboureur 682)
woodcut in colours, 1912, on laid paper,third (final) state the colours fresh, signed in pencil, numbered (the total edition was 43), printed by Fréquet, with wide margins, a deckle edge at right and bottom, a pinhole in the left and right margin, some very pale mount-staining, otherwise generally in very good condition
B. 240 x 267 mm., S. 325 x 370 mm.

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Lot Essay

According to the critique Robert Allen, the subject of this print is "a bold, close-up portrait of a lady clearly under the influence of opium. Her dreamy condition is emphasised by the wierd out-of-focus treatment of her eyes, the flat, grey sockets of which are hatched in parallel blacks and seem to be superimposed, like tinted glasses, an inch or two beyond the actual plane of her face." (Sylvain Laboureur, Catalogue Complet de l'oeuvre de Jean-Emile Laboureur, Neuchâtel, 1989, p.621)

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