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Jean-Emile Laboureur    (French, 1877-1943)
Jean-Emile Laboureur - Le Café du Commerce (Prints) h: 11.8 x w: 13.6 in / h: 30 x w: 34.5 cm
Jean-Emile Laboureur
Le Café du Commerce
 		   

Biography
1877 born in Nantes, France
1895 traveled to Paris intending to study law at the Sorbonne, the great wood engraver Auguste Lepere taught him woodcutting
1913 invented a cubist idiom all his own
1915 began experimenting with engraving
1943 died

Exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Art Institute of Chicago
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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