Poteau de bains (Beach Sign)

Date 1905
Technique Woodcut
Price $1,400.00
Exhibitor Jeannot R. Barr Prints and Drawings
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Amédée Joyau (France) 1872-1913
"Poteau des bains" (Beach Sign) {Les Sables -d'Olonne, Vendée. Woodcut, 1905. Curtis 56, ii/II. Ref: Clement-Janin (manuscript) 66; IFF non-described. Ed: 100, in this final state. There was an edition of 50 in the first state with slight differences in lines on beach. Signed with black ink, l.l. The artist's monogram in the block, l.l. Inscribed with black ink, "4/100". Titled with pencil, verso. Printed by the artist in colors on light laid japan with complete margins. 94 x 275 mm. (3 11/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

The scene - Les Sables-d'Olonne - is a small Summer resort town about 80 kilometers north of La Rochelle on France's Atlantic Coast.