The Picnic (WPA)

 

Adrien Machefert

  1880 - 1953 (biography)

c. 1937  

lithograph 

9 x 11 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

about 28 impressions 

pencil titled, lower center; signed on the stone on lower left of image; pencil written in unknown hand on verso: The Picnic '37 Adrian Machefert 

 

ivory wove watermarked France 

published 

WPA 

AFAE217 

$250.00 

Adrien Machefert's WPA lithograph of an afternoon picnic reads like an intimate tableau, with a young family at its center bent to the task of tending small children while other figures bustle about arranging food and baskets. To the left, three figures turn their gaze toward the viewer with something like curiosity; above, soft dark clouds float by, suggesting a distant summer storm.