Josine Vignon

Mid Century French Stylized Deer in a Birch Forest Mixed Media Drawing

1950's

Title: French Mid-Century Mixed Media Painting of Bride and Groom in Dreamlike Forest by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Signed: Yes Medium: Mixed media and watercolour ...

Title: Mid Century French Drawing Hillside Landscape with Trees and Distant Houses Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pen and Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (height) x 25.25 (width) Signed: Yes Condition: Good Provenance: All the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artist's estate Description: This intricate pen drawing presents a captivating view of a hillside, with rolling terrain dotted with trees and small houses in the distance. The rich textures of the landscape are brought to life through Vignon’s use of fine, detailed line work. The foreground is framed by large, twisting tree...

Wallpaper Sketch by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) pastel/watercolor paper, unframed painting: 19 x 25 inches good condition provenance: from the...

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache on artist paper, unframed Mounted on card frame size: 17 x 11 inches condition: very good an...

In the Wood is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for some ripping and small ...

Large Axel Salto woodcut/lithograph. Typical Salto depiction of wild deer in a grey/black composition. This is number 63 of af limited run of 100 pieces made during the late 1930s or...

The Deer is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 8.15 inches, unsigned as issued, and framed in a contemporary silver and gray moulding. One of about 36 prints that exist with Picasso's remarqued title in French, from the edition of 262 (there were 226 portfolios, some with additional sets on varying papers). Catalogue - Cramer #37 The exceptional etchings from Picasso’s Histoire Naturelle – Textes de Buffon are a masterful combination of sugar-lift aquatint and drypoint, showcasing a full range of gray tonalities. The etchings of animals, birds and insects are considered some of the most beautiful and most unusual examples of Picasso’s graphic work. Roger Lacourière, Picasso’s master printer, pulled the prints for each etching between 1939-1942. It was Lacourière who taught Picasso the sugar-lift aquatint technique which allowed him to mimic the effect of brushstrokes in these etched images. Picasso first explored the technique in his plates for the Vollard Suite, but it was in the creation of the Buffon images that he fully realized its stunning, painterly potential. For the edition, 226 portfolios were produced with the first thirty-six counting as deluxe compilations. These rare deluxe sets were on diverse papers (chine, japon or vergé ancien) and each included a complete additional suite showing Picasso’s title remarques along the bottom. As such, the remarqued versions of the prints are quite rare with just thirty-six of each produced for the edition (with the exception of The Wolf which is never remarqued – the image always fills the entire etching plate). These prints are based on the writings of French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, who extensively documented the natural world in his monumental work Histoire Naturelle. Picasso’s association with the project to illustrate parts of the Buffon came during a tumultuous time in European history – the prelude to, and early years of, World War II. As the continent was ravaged, Picasso lived through the disaster in Paris, which the Germans occupied in 1940. These prints could be seen as a political statement – Picasso channeling his artistic expression into a form of resistance art...

Reindeer In Forest Tempera on silk, gold leaf frame under glass, by Chinese artist Ma Hai Feng born 1958.