46. John Winkler
(1894-1979)
Le Petit Brocanteur

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Winkler: Le Petit Brocanteur

Le Petit Brocanteur

Etching, 1923, 165 x 186 mm., Winkler 89, edition 80. In 1921, Winkler left San Francisco to settle, eventually, in Paris for six years. He brought with him many earlier plates to work on and print, but also etched what he saw around him in France. There is something of a parallel with the works of such French etchers as Auguste Brouet, but a certain angularity of drawing and a Whistlerian contrast of heavily and lightly worked areas sets his work apart. A very fine impression in brown-black ink with plate tone on laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil; slight discoloration around the area of the old mat opening. A brocanteur is a dealer in second-hand goods.