Montparnasse

 

Jean Jacques Joachim Rigal

  1926 - 1997 (biography)

c. 1980  

etching and color aquatint 

13 1/2 x 17 7/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

52 of 90  

pencil titled and editioned 

 

heavy, cream BFK Rives 

published 

Guilde de Gravure (blindstamp lower right margin) 

16497 

SOLD

This color etching is of a building at night in Montparnasse, located on the left bank of the river Seine in Paris. Montparnasse was the center of intellectual and artistic life in early 20th century Paris until World War II. Rigal, as so many artists have, found his inspiration in the architecture of old Paris.