Workers Cutting off Cigar Tips, 1891
Auguste Louis Lepèreexpand_more
Color woodcut on Japanese-style paperexpand_more
Bequest of Harry Drakeexpand_more 2013.35.649
Not on Viewexpand_more
The sturdy stone wall and big iron ring signal that Auguste Lepère has led us to the embankments along the River Seine. The two men in the foreground have scavenged used cigars and are extracting the unburnt tobacco. They straddle a stack of planks that their neighbors are using for a bed, perhaps finding the planks drier and warmer than the pavement.
Details
- Title
- Workers Cutting off Cigar Tips
- Artist Life
- Paris 1849–Domme, Dordogne 1918
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.35.649
- Provenance
- Estate of Auguste Lèpere (Lugt 141). Claude Roger-Marx (1888-1977), Paris (Lugt 2229). [Richard Reed Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago, until 1998; sold in April for LTO, to Drake]; Harry Drake, St. Paul (1998-d. 2012; bequeathed to MIA)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Lotz-Brissonneau 236; BN-IFF 153 i/ii
- Curator Approved
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