Henri De Waroquier, Composition, Alternance, Etching

Condition: Pre-Owned
Etching on vlin pur chiffon de Rives paper. Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 9.875 x 12.875 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, Alternance, 1946. Published by Le Gerbier, Paris; printed by atelier Quesneville, Paris, March 2, 1946. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Printing was finished on March 2, 1946 on the presses of atelier Quesneville for thirteen etchings; on the presses of Lacourire for the etchings by Henri Matisse and Dignimont; the etching of J.G. Daragnes was engraved by himself; the typography, which is composed of Garamond was printed on the presses of the Master Printer, G. Girard. This collection of sixteen original etchings, alternating with sixteen unpublished writings, CCC examples have been drawn, including XXXVIII on Monival and hand numbered from I to XXXVIII; and, CCLXII on Rives BFK, numbered from XXXIX to CCC. XL examples have been drawn for hors commerce on Lana a la forme have been numbered form of I to XL.

HENRI DE WAROQUIER (1881-1970) was a painter, sculptor and printmaker, was born in Paris. He studied in Paris at the School of Decorative Arts, and privately with the architect Charles Genuys and the painter and scholar Louis Mnard. In 1903, he was named professor of composition at the Estienne School of Art and Industry in Paris. He often traveled to Venice and did a number of paintings, drawings and etchings of that city. de Waroquier exhibited prominently in the annual Salon exhibitions in Paris, most notably in the Salon dAutomne, of which he eventually became president, and in the Salon des Tuilleries and the Salon des Artistes Indpendants. He had many one-man shows in Paris and elsewhere. In 1946, the museum in Zurich mounted an extensive retrospective of his work, and in 1952 the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris held an exhibition of fifty of his sculptures. In 1955, the Bibliothque Nationale in Paris put on an exhibition of his engravings. De Waroquiers work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of the 1930s in Boulgone-Billancourt.
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