14. Félix Buhot
1847-1898

Forêt (Forest)

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Forêt

Forêt (Forest)

Etching, ca. 1874, 74 x 129 mm., Bourcard/Goodfriend 42, only state. Provenance: Kazimir de Woznicki (Lugt 1652a). A very good, clear impression on laid paper with full, large margins. Pale foxing, mostly in the margins. This early, strongly-bitten etching is signed with Buhot's anagrammatic pseudonym ''Tohub.'' It is far less a study of trees than a patterning of light and dark, the sort of experimentation that would prove useful in his later work.