Author: Adolf Melchior (1898-1962)
Title: [Modern drawing, chalk] View on a street of Figeac (FR), dated 1960, 1 p.
Description: View on a small street in Figeac, a village in the South of France (Middeleeuwse stad in Occitanie, Zuid-Frankrijk).Inscribed and signed on the bottom: Figeac, 26 Mei 1960.Adolf Melchior was a doctor, artist and writer from Haarlem, the Netherlands. Under the pseudonym Eduard het Schaap, he was author of the book 'Ware en Onware Verhalen', which was published by J.H. Gottmer on the occasion of Haarlem's 700th anniversary in 1946. For the same publisher, he illustrated 'De Eerste Walvisvaart van de Willem Barendsz', the journal of a ship's doctor during a trip to the arctic. He collected his travel impressions in the book 'Schoonheid en bijgeloof in Oost-Afrika', which was published by De Spaarnestad in 1958. In his art, he was influenced by Anton Pieck. [From: lambiek.net] Red and black chalk on paper; total: 509 x 322 mm; in very good condition.

Keywords: Castles and country estates|Drawings|Modern prints|Onderwerpen