Original engraving by Henry de Waroquier (1936)

"La douleur" (1936) - original engraving by Henry de Waroquier (1881 - 1970) Portrait of a man's face, signed in the plate, countersigned to the graphite mine, dated, titled, and numbered 16/25. Gypsum engraving process. Dimension 24x33 cm. Mention of a referencing in catalog (n ° 178), and the provenance of an old collection. The work is sold in a sleeve bearing the label Christie's, London. Henry de Waroquier (1881 - 1970) was a French painter, sculptor, draughtsman and engraver, attached to the School of Paris. Friend of Paul Claudel, George Braque, Jean Cocteau, or Modigliani, we owe to Henry de Waroquier a large fresco at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, and many works exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay, the museums of modern art of Paris and Strasbourg, the museums of Fine Arts of Brussels, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes ... But also at the Ohara Art Museum in Japan, the Laurier Museum in Canada, or the SMK in Copenhagen. Long studies at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle led Henry de Waroquier to experiment with gypsum engraving, a technique with which he produced this work.