Femme Accroupie. Woman Seated on the Ground. by Roger De La Fresnaye, 1885-1925

Roger De La Fresnaye, 1885-1925
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Femme Accroupie. Woman Seated on the Ground.

Monotype (unique print) in black ink. 1911. Signed with the artist's signature stamp (used on works found in his studio at his death). Dated 1911 in pencil. No edition. Very Rare. Provenance: Collection Baron Petiet.

Extremely strong textural and tonal impression. On the original sheet - pale cream wove paper mounted on a stiff backing sheet, as printed. Generally excellent condition. Slight traces of old edge mounting on the extreme outer sheet edges. Sheet: 13 1/4 x 9 3/4ins. (336x248mm)

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A unique monotype impression of one of La Fresnaye?s characteristic Fauve figure studies, Drawn using pen, lithographic ink and surface tone work on an unbitten copper plate Fresnaye has used the unique nature of monotype - the combination of line and transparency of surface which derives from the ?squashing? of the ink on the plate as it passes through the pressure of the press - to give the form a particular plasticity and sense of plane.

La Fresnaye was an outstandingly creative and innovative painter during the first two decade of the century. Yet his work is largely known only to connoisseurs of the art of the period, in part perhaps because having left Paris to fight in the First War at the beginning of hostilities he suffered badly from being gassed in 1918 and really hardly recovered before his tragically young death in 1925. Yet he had contributed some major works both to the art of the Fauve circle and to Cubism. Printmaking had interested him from around 1907/8 and his two cubist still-life compositions in lithography are amongst the greatest prints of their genre. He experimented with monotype on a number of occasions, although most examples were unknown until they were found in his studio at his death. They are very rare on the market but also very powerful examples of his expressionistic thinking in the period 1908-1911.