COLLET - Lot 215

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COLLET - Lot 215
COLLET Paul COLLET (NIVELLES, 1889 - 1952) - Set of 16 woodcuts signed, most of them justified. From 1923 to 1933. Various sizes. Rural landscapes (8), cloister (2), bridges (3), alleys (2) and an invitation from the Chamber of Lawyers of Nivelles for the 50th professional anniversary of Léon Tamine, on June 15, 1933. "Painter, draughtsman, engraver, watercolourist and illustrator, he is also a lawyer, a man of letters and an aesthetics teacher. Author of remarkable reconstructions of the past of his native city. He is best known for his linocuts, a technique he was the first to use in Belgium (1911). His master was without question A. Donnay whose example of "linear synthesis" he cultivated. He exhibited in almost all the capitals of Europe as well as in Cairo and New York. P. Collet has been called the "Imagier du Roman Pays de Brabant." Dictionary of Belgian painters. 1 wood in duplicate, some marginal foxing.
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