Hermine David, 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 This collection of sixteen original etchings, alternating with sixteen unpublished writings, CCC examples have been drawn, including XXXVIII on Monival and hand numbered from I to XXXVIII; and, CCLXII on Rives BFK, numbered from XXXIX to CCC.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.

HERMINE DAVID (1886-1970) was a French painter. She became one of the cole de Paris artists, a group of mostly non-French artists, migrs particularly from eastern Europe who were working in Paris before World War I. Jules Pascin was another member of that artistic group, whom she met in 1907. By that time, she was already well-established as a successful young painter, miniaturist and printmaker. She followed Pascin to the United States in 1915, where they were married on 25 September 1918. They stayed a total of five years, past the end of World War I. David exhibited in New York City during her residence there. In 1920, after they returned to France, she exhibited in London and in several solo shows at prominent Paris galleries. While her finest work dates to the 1920s and including the book illustrations for which she developed a passion in the '20s, she was active into the 1960s. She won a watercolor prize at the Biennale de Deauville in 1965. Her work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. She outlived her husband by forty years after he committed suicide in 1930. She died in 1970 at Bry-sur-Marne. Her work is included in the collection of the Muse national des beaux-arts du Qubec.
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