Gustave Courbet
Wood engraving, 1969
From the series Laus Pictorum, Portraits of Nineteeth Century Artists
Total edition of 577
Ref: Fern & O'Sullivan 539
4 5/8 x 4 inches; 119 x 101 mm.
Signed & numbered D/ZZ; printed on laid Japan with full margins.
Courbet (1819-1877)He was an anti-intellectual bohemian who rejected all
idealization in art. He felt that the peasant and the worker were the noblest
subjects for painters. The great realist painter was imprisoned in St. Pelagie
for being a member of the Communards, and for his role in pulling down the
Vendome Column in Paris.
