Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR
Le Garçon de Restaurant Américain.

Woodcut on Japan paper, 1904-09. 152x67 mm; 6x2 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 10/25 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this very scarce, early woodcut.

Laboureur was amoung the vanguard early modern French artists to visit America, where he was from 1903 to 1908, and spent time in the bustling east coast cities New York and Pittsburg. Laboureur 641.