Pierre Laprade : "at The Stamp Merchant"

Pierre Laprade (1875-1931): “Chez le Marchand d'Estampes”, oil on heavy cardboard 55 X 39 cm, mounted in a modern black and gold frame with an inverted slope 60 X 44 cm (piton hole at the top). A little forgotten nowadays, Laprade nevertheless had a singular and personal career with an immediately identifiable style: fluid impressionism with a generous body and often intimate subjects like his friends Bonnard or Lebasque. Although exhibited at the famous Eugène Druet Gallery, it was above all his collaboration with Ambroise Vollard that launched it: the famous merchant with infallible flair buying around 1903 his entire workshop ... From then on, collectors rushed and it is possible that our painting was produced at his home, the gallery owner also being the publisher of prints. Probably dating from the very beginning of the 1920s, it shows us in shades of pinks, blues and gray a young woman in a Paul Poiret kimono dress admiring a print in the middle of drawing boards. Do not hesitate to ask us for photos or additional information by email or phone. Other photos and many other objects in our stores in Pau and Biarritz and on our website: galerielhoste.com.