"Les Commiseret" by Jacques Beurdeley, Fr, (1874-1954) Pencil

"Les Commiseret" by Jacques Beurdeley, Fr, (1874-1954) PencilEtching, ca. 1920, ed. 50, 6 5 16 x 10 9 16, signed in ink, on cream wove Arches paper. There is a hint of Whistler and Roussel in the cropping and frontality of this composition. No wonder, Beurdeley's framing of the figures in a doorway was also a familiar compositional device of Whistler's and Jacques Beurdeley's father Paul Beurdeley happened to be a good friend of Whistler.

A fine impression of this striking early print by Anguiano

where this demonstration plate was executed by Arms on Oct

His formidable gifts as a prolific painter and printmaker are long overdue for scholarly re-evaluation in America

on buff Arches laid paper

pale mat line

is included with this impression of the print

on thin cream wove paper

on thin cream wove japan paper

on cream wove Rives paper

of 16 (XX) plus a few artist proofs

4-7/8 x 7-3/8

some cockling to margins