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Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (, 1901-1988). Boy against night sky, £460 inc

Wood engraving, 130 x 92 mm (5 x 3.5 ins), mounted, framed and glazed. A Presentation copy, inscribed in pencil on margin "To Margaret from Clare Leighton, Christmas 1929". so NOT one of the modern 'copies' an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings. Clare Leighton was born in London on April 12, 1899. Her early efforts at painting were encouraged by her parents and her uncle Jack Leighton, an artist and illustrator. In 1915, she began formal studies at the Brighton College of Art and later trained at the Slade School of Fine Art (1921-23), and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she studied wood engraving under Noel Rooke.

During the late 1920s and 1930s, Leighton visited the United States on a number of lecture tours. In 1939 she emigrated to the US and became a naturalised citizen in 1945. Over the course of a long and prolific career, she wrote and illustrated numerous books praising the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly technological, industrial, and urban, Leighton portrayed rural working men and women. In the 1950s she created designs for Steuben Glass, Wedgwood plates, and several stained glass windows for churches in New England.

She was the daughter of Robert Leighton (1858-1934) and Marie Connor Leighton (1865-1941), both authors. She had two brothers, Roland and Evelyn. The older brother Roland Leighton, immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth, was killed in action, December 1915. Evelyn became a captain in the Royal Navy and died in 1969.The best known of her books are "The Farmer's Year" (1933; a calendar of English husbandry), "Four Hedges - A Gardener's Chronicle" (1935; the development of a garden from a meadow she had bought in the Chilterns) and "Tempestuous Petticoat; The story of an invincible Edwardian" (1948; describing her childhood and her bohemian mother).

 

Jacques Boullaire (1893-1976) is an artist and a painter french

 

Born in Paris on December 23, 1893 to a family originally from Champagne, Norman by his mother, Jacques Boullaire tires quickly to deal with the publicity of his automobile brother industrialist Louis Renault (1877-1944) , who married his sister Christiane Boullaire (? - 1979), September 26, 1918. A student of Guy Arnoux and Dimitrios Galanis, his first wood engravings were not made that ten years later. He exhibited at the Tuileries from 1926, in the 'lounge of Independents' from 1927 to 1945, then at the show fall from 1928.

He had been a sergeant in the Air Force during the First World War and once he had put his decorations away in the bottom of a drawer, he had let himself be drawn into the advertising department of a large French car company. He soon tired of catalogues and posters, and went into original engraving: woodcarving, lithography, graving tool and etching needle work. He had well-established contacts with the "Crapouillot". He seemed to be cut out for illustration work. He started in 1928 by illustrating "Frederic and Bergerette", a charming tale by Alfred de Musset. In the following years, he worked on two very fine books : "Cesar Birotteau" and "Mrs Bovary" which came out at Mornay's. This was the beginning of his art career!

He was drawn to the Pacific Islands as a result of his marriage to Anne Hervé, a Breton, the daughter of a French resident in the Tuamotu Islands, raised in the rough and austere solitude of a Polynesian atoll where she, too, delighted in drawing and painting. Jacques Boullaire then traveled in the Pacific Ocean and around Polynesia; his approaches were methodical. His profession as an illustrator had already put him in a position as an observer of different particular or characteristic things. With a meticulous and endless passion, he took down rapid graphic notes, sketches or more detailed drawings

. He later became an invited exhibitor but non member of the Society of Wood engraving Originale (SGBO), and organizes exhibitions of his works He illustrated many books of engravings . In 1959, Jacques Boullaire, former aviation photographer, became official painter of the Navy. He died in Paris on October 3, 1976.

  

 

"Tewksbury Mill" signed in pencil by John Hogarth 1926

Framed and Glazed  original but slightly scruffy frame £95 inc postage etc

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