Lot n° 65
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Result
: 180EUR
Auguste BROUET (1872-1941) - Lot 65
Auguste BROUET (1872-1941)
Sunset, seaside
Oil on panel
Signed "A. Brouet" lower right
Bears a collector's inventory label with ink stamp "L F" on reverse
22 x 33 cm
Framed
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Private collection
NOTICE
A French draftsman, engraver and illustrator, he studied with Eugène Quignolot (1847-1921) and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At the same time, he was taught by Auguste Delâtre and took up etching, proving to be particularly gifted. He exhibited his work at the 1910 Venice Biennale. He illustrated several works, including Frédéric Mistral's Mirèio Mireille, for which he supplied original etchings that he drew and engraved. After several exhibitions, including his first in March 1922 at Galerie Barbazanges, he enjoyed a certain success in 1922 and 1923. Gustave Geffroy devoted a catalog raisonné to him in 1929.
Brouet left over four hundred prints. He was influenced by Rembrandt, whose engraving technique he drew heavily on. He drew his subjects from popular milieux, particularly the village of Montmartre, with its prostitutes, dancers, circuses, modest interiors and so on.
An interpretive engraver at the start of his career, he translated into copper, in black or color, the works of painters such as Rembrandt, Velasquez, Watteau, Chardin, Turner, Millet, Corot, Whistler and Woog. He illustrates numerous books, including those by Joris-Karl Huysmans (La Bièvre et Saint-Séverin, Le Drageoir aux épices, Marthe), Francis Carco (Jésus la Caille), André Suarès (Le Livre de L'émeraude).
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