Jean Émile Laboureur

(1877 - 1943)

Bulin engraving, the state, framed, some slight defects

sheet 20.9x16.6 cm, matrix 15.5x12.5 cm

Break along the lower margin: Essai / nègres américains à Saint Nazaire On the reverse bears Registration: N. 2975 LMG On the reverse bears stamp: Guillaume Apollinaire collection Origin: Private Collection Florence; Guillaume Apollinaire collection Bibliography: L. Godefroy, The Oeuvre Gravé de Jean -émile Laboureur, Paris: 1929, n 180 Opera accompanied by a handwritten letter by Jean Edouard Gautrot where he declares that the work comes from the Guillaume Apollinaire collection and was purchased by him in 1971 to the death of Jacqueline Propolinaire, wife of the poet, from his heir and cousin