Le Zoo de Vincennes

 

Hermine David

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1948  

drypoint 

8 15/16 x 6 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

3 of 110  

pencil editioned 

 

antique-white wove Arches 

published 

Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français (their chop in lower right margin) 

19750 

$300.00 

This fanciful zoo by Hermine David has a Surreal edge. The storks in the background are far larger than the people in the foreground but the result is effective, emphasizing the animals.