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FÉLIX BUHOT Les Voisins de Campagne.
Etching, drypoint and aquatint, 1878. 135x182 mm, and with the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 977, lower center recto). 5 3/8x7 1/4 inches, full margins. Third state (of 6). Signed and annotated in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression.
Born in a small Normandy village and orphaned at a young age, Buhot (1847-1898) turned to art making and eventually studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He quickly developed a printmaking practice, contributing to a reinvigorated interest in the medium and innovating beyond established practices. He published many of his prints over several states, evincing the care he took to rework his compositions, and incorporated multiple intaglio methods on each plate, as in the current work. In addition to his technical experimentation, he inked each plate by hand and varied his use of paper to create unique impressions. Notably Buhot developed the technique he called marges symphoniques, the borders of remarqués around the plate's main image, for which his work is most recognizable (see also lots 75 and 77). Bourcard/Goodfriend 148.
