Funerailles de Guerre

 

Pierra Paulus

  1881 - 1959 (biography)

1918  

lithograph, printed in dark brown ink 

12 1/16 x 16 5/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

10 of 100  

pencil titled, dated, and editioned 

 

cream laid 

published 

artist 

19070 

SOLD

A World War I image, two soldiers carrying a fallen comrade on a makeshift stretcher. Baron Pierre Paulus de Châtelet was born on March 16, 1881, in Châtelet, Belgium. Chatelet was a Walloon expressionist painter, most known as the designer of "the bold rooster" (French: le coq hardi) adopted on 3 July 1913 by the Walloon Assembly for the flag of Wallonia. He gained notability during the Wallon Art Exposition of Charleroi in 1911 and, in the interwar period, he held several exhibitions in Europe and in the USA. Pierre Paulus de Châtelet died on August 17, 1959, in Brussels, Belgium.