(French mountain village)

Paul Baudier

Voluminous clouds over the distant mountains do not deplete the brightness of Paul Baudier’s rural village in this untitled color woodcut. A woman with a walking stick and bundle slung over her shoulder walks along a cobbled road between thatched-roof houses. The scene is both bucolic and uneventful, and offers a view of a disappearing way of life that Baudier held dear throughout his career.

Baudier’s woodcut style was often illustrative, with attention to detail and texture and framed in a decorative way. This was likely a part of one of Baudier’s series of French villages that he undertook on commission in the late 1920s, though no official record of this work can be found at this time.