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Pierre Courtin

The catalogue raisonné of Courtin's graphic works spans the years 1944 to 1977 and illustrates 400 of his abstract, often three dimensional prints. This image likely precedes the raisonné and anticipates the cubist figurative vocabulary he began using in early engravings. The fact that it is editioned at 25 impressions indicates this was not just a student project.

Pierre Courtin did his first abstract engraving in 1944. He had studied with Cubist painter and theorist André Lhote with whom he delved into the abstracted visual language of Cubism. His first 14 engravings were a series of Cubist figure studies, standing or seated figures, including a series of 7 "Seated Figure" plates.