Jardins (aka: Prairies heureuses)

 

Roger Vieillard

  1907 - 1989 (biography)

1945  

engraving 

9 3/4 x 12 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower left 

3/5 from state viii; outside the edition of 40 

pencil titled and editioned 

Hacker/Ashmolean 70 

cream laid Vidalon 

viii/ix 

artist 

19217 

SOLD

"Jardins" was done in 1945, after the war had ended. The alternative title is 'Prairies heurses' and depicts an idyllic garden, a surreal "Garden of Eden" that the world was so ready to embrace. The figures were simple and essential, protected by a lush landscape.