Louis Legrand (Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand)

Le Mee

Louis Legrand 's original drypoint engraving with plate tone, "Le Mee" is printed on hand-made, laid paper and with full, deckled margins as published in Paris by Pellet around 1911 in an edition of fifty impressions. It is signed in the plate by the artist to the lower right and signed and numbered by Legrand in pencil under the plate-mark. The engraving also contains the red Pellet seal to the right of the numeration. "Le Mee" is a fine, original example of the engraved art created by the French artist, Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand.

Original Drypoint Engraving with Plate Tone by the French artist, Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand.

Le Mee

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Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (Digon, 1863 - Livry Gargan, 1851)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		La Toilette (The Bath) by Louis Legrand	Original Drypoint Engraving	1905	Signed in the plate by the artist to the lower left and bearing the printed words,"Louis Legrand Inv. et sc.", to the lower right.	Sold
02.-		Le Mee by Louis Legrand	Original Drypoint Engraving with Plate Tone	c. 1911 - 1914	Signed in the plate by the artist to the lower right and signed and numbered, '43/50' by Louis Legrand in pencil under the plate-mark.	Sold
03.-		Petite Mere (Young Mother) by Louis Legrand	Original Etching	1900 (Mauclair Edition: 1910)	Titled and dated within the plate along the lower margin. As always, containing the two small cancellation dots (upper center margin and lower center margin) which were created by Pellet after the publication of the 1900 edition.

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Title:	Le Mee
Artist:	Legrand, Louis Auguste Mathieu (Digon, 1863 - Livry Gargan, 1851)
Date:	c. 1911 - 1914
Medium:	Original Drypoint Engraving with Plate Tone
Note:	Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand 'Louis Legrand': Even in the liberal atmosphere of pre World War One Paris, the drypoints and etchings of Louis Legrand sometimes created controversy. Much of his art was frankly erotic and for his more prudish critics this element blinded them from his great artistic talents. Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand first studied painting techniques at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in his native Dijon. He moved to Paris in 1884 and was deeply impressed with the graphic art of Degas, particularly his nudes in monotype, drypoint and lithography. Shortly thereafter he met and became a friend of Felicien Rops -- that famous nineteenth century master of macabre and sexual imagery. It was Rops who first introduced then instructed Louis Legrand in the art of etching and engraving.
	In 1887 Louis Legrand became a contributing artist to Le Courrier Francais and, along with such contemporaries as Forain and Willette, contributed weekly illustrations for the following five years. Around 1891 Louis Legrand was introduced to the influential publisher, Gustave Pellet. Pellet (1859-1919) commissioned the lithographs and etchings of such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Alexandre Lunois, Rops and Raffaelli. During the following three decades Pellet published almost three hundred original etchings and drypoints by Legrand.
	Louis Legrand's first one-man exhibition of his art took place in Paris in 1896. At the 1900 Universal Exhibition Legrand was awarded a Silver Medal. Two years later the government of France awarded Louis Legrand the prestigious Legion d'honneur. During the following years such important scholars and critics as Roger Marx, Louis Morin, Clement-Janin and Camille Mauclair published comprehensive articles and monographs upon the graphic art of Louis Legrand.
	In subject and theme scholars have often linked Louis Legrand's prints to those of Toulouse-Lautrec. Both artists concentrated upon scenes of dance halls, bars, brothels and other areas of life that lie outside the bounds of 'acceptable' society. At the turn of the century, in fact, Louis Legrand established his studio at the Moulin Rouge.
	Today the art of Louis Legrand is included in most major French and international museums. His masterful command of drypoint, etching, aquatint and roulette is characterized by his direct and individualistic manner, with vigorous modeling and rich tones. Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching.
Edition:	Like most of Legrand's drypoint engravings and etchings, Le Mee was first published by Pellet in a limited edition of fifty impressions. Each of these first state impression contains the edition number (in this case, 43) and Pellet's red blindstamp along the lower right margin. Composed almost entirely in drypoint, Le Mee is a striking example of how Louis Legrand utilizes tonal values and an economy of line to achieve a remarkable composition.
Size:	6 X 8 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed on hand-made, laid paper and with full, deckled margins as published in Paris by Pellet around 1911. Signed in the plate by the artist to the lower right and signed and numbered, '43/50' by Legrand in pencil under the plate-mark. Also the engraving contains the red Pellet seal (somewhat faded) to the right of the numeration. Containing some rippling with the actual engraving (due to printing pressure) else a finely printed impression with strong burr and full plate tone and in very good condition throughout. Le Mee represents a prime, original example of the famous art of Louis-Auguste-Mathieu Legrand 'Louis Legrand'.
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