MID CENTURY MODERN Signed ~ FRENCH MASTER PRINTMAKER ~ 1952 Color Etching MUSEUM

Description: An original etching with additional hand coloring by the highly regarded French printmaker Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971). This etching is "Estaminet" or bar or tavern in English, the catalogue raisonné reference is: F. Gromaire - 139. This etching is printed in black ink and heightened with hand coloring on cream colored Arches wove paper and hand signed and numbered in pencil below image in the margin, also initialed G in the plate. The plate measures 7 3/4 × 10 1/8 inches, sheet size is approx. 13 x 15 1/8 inches with a deckel edge to the bottom. Another example of this same print (although uncolored) is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.597 Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971) was a French painter and master printmaker. His early works are associated with Social Realism, while his later are more Expressionist, but Gromaire can be said to have created an independent oeuvre distinct from groups and movements. Gromaire studied in Paris receiving his Law degree in 1909, a judiciary career path he quickly abandoned. He frequented studios in Montparnasse and attended classes at Académie de La Palette and Colarossi. A combatant during WWI, he was wounded in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. After the war, Gromaire returned to art. Influenced by his friend, the famed printmaker Jean Emile Laboureur, Gromaire started wood engraving in 1918. By the early 1920s, he had moved on to copperplate engraving. He was recognized very early by galleries and museums. In 1931, Pierre Matisse exhibited Gromaire's work at the inauguration of his New York gallery. In 1933, a retrospective at the Kunsthalle de Baie established the importance of his body of works. In 1937, his work was exhibited by orders of the State at the Paris Exposition Internationale. From 1939 to 1944, Gromaire resided at Aubusson, Creuse, and participated in the renewal of the tapestry movement with Jean Lurcat. He was named a professor at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs from 1950 until 1962. In 1950, he travelled to the United States as a member of the jury for the Carnegie Prize, which was awarded to Jacques Villon that year. A Carnegie prize was awarded to Gromaire himself in 1952. In 1954, he was made commander of the Légion d'honneur and in 1958, the Grand Prix National des Arts. In 1963, a retrospective was dedicated to Gromaire at the Musée national d'art moderne. Gromaire died in Paris in 1971. In 1980, a retrospective exhibition of his life's work was held at the Musée d'art moderne in Paris.

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