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Combourg Series: Erection of a Cross by Albert Decaris

Albert Decaris

French (1901-1989)
Combourg Series: Erection of a Cross, c. 1928
Etching
10×7IN.

17 in an edition of 30. Signed in pencil lower right: “Decaris”; numbered in pencil lower left: “17/30”. Titled in pencil in lower left margin by Samuel Chamberlain: “Erection of a Cross”. Watermarks are: “Combourg” along upper margin and “Marais a la Main” along lower margin. A fine impression in fine condition with margins measuring between 1 and 2″ all around.

Illustrated in a limited luxury edition of “Combourg”, the first of 3 parts of Mémoires d’outre-tombe” (Memories out of the tomb), the posthumous autobiography of François-René de Chateaubriand (French 1768-1848).

Illustrated by Albert Decaris. Paris: Le Fuseau Chargé de Laine, 1928. Illus. p. 60. Decaris also made outside editions of 30 signed, numbered impressions of the Combourg series, to which this impression belongs.

Signature: Signed in pencil
$475
Childs Gallery
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