Le Czar en Costume de Sacre from the portfolio "La Guerre de 1914", the 1st series

 

Auguste Louis Lepere

  1849 - 1918 (biography)

c. 1914  

woodcut 

8 7/8 x 5 9/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

29 of 35  

numbered; initialled in block 

Texier-Bernier 529; no 3 in the first series 

laid paper with LA snail watermark 

published 

artist 

6277 

SOLD

Auguste Lepere created a series of 5 portfolios he titled “La Guerre de 1914” (The War of 1914). The first portfolio was printed from the 18 original woodblocks in an edition of 35. The other 4 portfolios were printed by Gillotage, photographically reproduced from drawings. The war lasted from 1814 to 1918. This impression is from the first series, printed from the original blocks and signed by Lepere.e