Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
La Gosse aux Cheveux Rouges (Petite Fille au Chat Noir).

Woodcut on Japan paper, 1910. 146x126 mm; 5 3/4x5 inches, full margins. Signed by the artist with his pseudonym "Algernon St. John Crabe" and numbered 10/25 in pencil, lower left. A superb impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.

Laboureur's artistic pseudonym is an expression his Anglophilia. He often signed his works with a crab monogram ink stamp, a play on Algernon St. John Crabe. Laboureur 787.