Antique Drawing-EAGLE-BIRD OF PREY-Reims-ca. 1960

Drawing on wove paper.
Sheet size: 24 x 30 cm. (9,4 x 11,8 inch). Image size: 24 x 30 cm. (9,4 x 11,8 inch).

Source unknown, to be determined.

Made by ‘Cecile Reims’ after own design. Cecile Reims (1927-2020) was France’s most accomplished engraver and drawer of the past century. She also was a writer. She was a resistance member of World War II. She received the Legion of Honour in 2013. Reims died in La Ch?tre on 18 July 2020, aged 92. Of Lithuanian Jewish descent, Reims’s first came to France in 1933. In the 50th and 60th of the last century she went into nature to draw animals like this bird. Later in her life her work became more abstract, surrealistic.

Condition: Good, given age. Waterstain on the reverse hardly visible in the front matting. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: ANIMAL-BIRD-EAGLE-BIRD OF PREY

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