Description

Pierre-Eugène Vibert (1875-1937)

Pierre-Eugène Vibert : Portrait of Jean-Paul

Wood engraving

Printed on arches wove paper (France) with the dry stamp of the SGBO, copy numbered 15/160 signed by the artist in black pencil, 1926

This woodcut comes from a volume (large in-4°) of 12 plates published by the Société de la Gravure sur Bois Originale. It is an imagier of the original woodcut of 1926 printed at 160 numbered and nominative copies.

Dimensions of the sheet : H. 327 mm x L. 253 mm.

Pierre-Eugène Vibert is a Swiss painter, draftsman, illustrator and engraver who shared his life between Geneva and Paris. In 1897, Pierre-Eugène was close to the wood engravers grouped around the magazine L’Image. From 1898, Vibert exhibited in Paris at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts. In 1903, he was a founding member of the Salon d’automne in Paris, where he also exhibited. In 1914, Vibert was appointed professor at the Geneva School of Fine Arts. Thereafter he divided his time between Geneva and Paris.