Description: Antique Color Etching L’Automne Rene Ligeron - COA Label from SZL Sidney Z Lucas and it is in an original Jordan Marsh Store of Boston Mass. Frame, they had their own art gallery in the main Boston store. The frame measures 26 5/8" x 31 5/8" that fits 25" x 30"; the visible artwork is about 18" x 24". Larger than most R Ligeron engravings. Autumn landscape beautiful scene. The matte has some fairly minor age marks and there is dust under the glass, otherwise the artwork is fine and the frame is solid & sturdy with glass panel. See detailed photos. Rene Ligeron (Born 1880) was active/lived in France. Rene Ligeron is known for Prints and Painting.René Ligeron was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1880. René Ligeron's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 80 USD to 2,172 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,172 USD for Paris from the banks of the Seine, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 2003. The artist died in 1946. Sidney Z. Lucas (Czech-American, 1896-1966), Camilla Lucas Gallery–Old Print Center, Paris Etching Society and Phyllis Lucas Gallery–Old Print Center. Sidney Zoltan Lucas was born May 30, 1896 in Košice, Czechoslovakia and had two siblings to include Camilla Lucas-Fodor and Stephen Lucas. Sidney arrived in the United States from Paris in the 1920’s after living there for several years and having served in WWI. He served in the U.S. Army under Gen. MacArthur and was also a founder-member of the American Legion’s historic Paris Post 1, Department of France (Est. 1919). Lucas formed the Camilla Lucas Publishing Company in 1928 (named after his sister), along with establishing a retail art gallery and the Paris Etching Society (P.E.S.). Lucas was an importer and wholesale distributor of art prints and his retail art gallery, aptly called the Camilla Lucas Gallery, was located at 22 W. 26th St., NYC. The gallery was later known as the Camilla Lucas Old Print Center (or Shop sometimes listed as), located at 4 E. 46th St., NYC, and then at 36 W. 47th St., and also at 3 East 28th Street, NYC.Lucas traveled to Europe several times a year to commission prints by primarily French & Flemish artists which were all original hand-colored aquatints or etchings. The prints were usually signed by the artists (and sometimes titled in pencil by the artists) and supposedly the etchings were usually limited print-runs in the 350-500 range. Over the course of his career, he was known for importing, exhibiting and distributing not only etchings, but other artwork such as: lithographs, watercolors, oils, drawings, serigraphs, woodblock prints, restrikes, other prints & posters, maps, fine art book editions and print folio sets.In the 1950’s, the Old Print Center expanded and became known as the Phyllis Lucas Gallery–Old Print Center (for his wife Phyllis Norma [née Falk] Lucas, 1908-1995) that they operated together at 981 2nd Avenue (Corner 52nd St.) in NYC. The couple had three children to include Peter Lucas, Michael Lucas and Lucille “Luci” Lucas and the family resided at 252 East 52nd Street in the city. A later location of the gallery was also at 235 East 60th St., NYC.In January of 1965, the world famous Surrealist artist Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) appointed Sidney Z. Lucas to be his exclusive publisher in North America of hand-signed ltd. ed. lithographs, etchings and prints. Thirty-one print editions of Salvador Dali’s work were published through the Phyllis Lucas Gallery between 1965 and 1971 and are considered among his best graphic works. Dali was a frequent visitor to the gallery and a good friend of Sidney and Phyllis Lucas, and you can view a short video of him at the gallery in 1965 here. Other notable artists published or shown over that time, included: Redouté, Prevost, Barraband, Audubon, Gould, Piranesi, Daumiar, Chagal, Matisse, Picasso, Vlaminck, Utrillo, as well as Currier and Ives, Harper’s Weekly, and many more…On July 2, 1966, Sidney died in Memorial Hospital at the age of seventy and services were held at the Universal Funeral Chapel. Phyllis continued to run the gallery until her death in 1995, when their children took over.
Price: 295 USD
Location: Weymouth, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-10-20T01:15:01.000Z
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Production Technique: Etching
Framing: Framed
Type: Print
Size: Large
