Le Paradis

 

Roger-Maurice Grillon

  1881 - 1938 (biography)

c. 1920  

etching 

5 1/2 x 5 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

etat 8/10 

artist’s chop lower left; pencil titled on verso 

 

ivory laid with partial watermark 

proof 

artist 

20770 

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Grillon creates a surreal landscape - the Garden of Eden, using just parallel etched lines to give form to the shapes. Adam and Eve embrace, her hair flowing behind her, while being observed by a large, powerful elephant and the serpent in what appears to be a fig palm tree. A small imge that reads much larger than it is.