41. Henri Vergé-Sarrat
(1880-1966)
Chambre de Malade

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Vergé-Sarrat, Chambre de Malade

Chambre de Malade

Etching and drypoint, 1913, 319 x 205 mm. A fine impression of the first state, before reduction of the plate, on laid paper with full margins, a remarque below the main image, signed and numbered in pencil from the edition of 50 and with the Sagot blind stamp. Vergé-Sarrat was a Belgian born, French painter and print maker, self taught, who had a successful career, the admiration of his contemporaries, awards and honors and of whom we virtually never hear today. Art history is, unfortunately, full of such figures. Actually, this simple and sympathetic scene is not really typical of most of his work, which was more about landscape in France and the Middle-East, where he spent much time. And yet it is quite a wonderful print in its almost abstract patterning, with the inverted funnel of the bed draperies enclosing and presenting the sick woman like a jewel on display. The cat, perhaps also ill, has come out of its basket to add an empathetic note.

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