Jean Emile Laboureur (1877-1943) French, Lithograph "Le Gandien des Tanagras". Signed in pencil lower left. Annotated in pencil 4/15 lower right. Titled and dated 1909 in Roman numerals upper left. 

Overall Size: 20 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. 

Jean-Emile Laboureur (French, 1877–1943) was a painter, graphic artist, engraver, and illustrator, and founder of the group Les Peintres-Graveurs Indépendants.

Friend to avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire and painter Marie Laurencin, he found inspiration in sources ranging from Hellenistic vase painting to Nabis artists such as Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton.

Laboureur was born in Nantes, France in 1877.  He arrived in Paris in 1895 to study at the Faculty of Law.  Soon he began to attend the Academie Julian, and was introduced to the eminent wood engraver Auguste Lepère, and decided to devote himself to the study of printmaking.  Artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, with whom Laboureur became acquainted in 1896, encouraged his sense of humor and irony.

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