Le Bal Bullier - JEAN-EMILE LABOUREUR

Medium: woodcut

JEAN-EMILE LABOUREUR
French, (1877-1943)

Woodcut, 1898, Laboureur 579, edition 60 (61?) 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. Initialed in the block, lower left. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar woodcut was exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in the spring of 1898. It's illustrated and discussed on page 139 of The Artistic Revival of the Woodcut in France 1850-1900 (1984) by Jacquelyn Baas and Richard Field. Bal Bullier was a ballroom in Paris created by François Bullier in the mid 19th century and it was open until 1940. It was a well known student dance hall at 31 Avenue de l'Observatoire. (Note: the catalogue states an edition of sixty-one impressions but all the numbering we have seen is from an edition of sixty, as here. The catalogue suggests there exists an "épr. d'essai" proof before the monogram in the block which would account for the extra impression.)      $4,000

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