Entitled " Porte de l'ancienne Confrerie des Barbiers et Chirurgiens rue de l'Ecole de Medecine, Paris " this pen and ink with wash on ivory paper is a masterful work by the celebrated French painter  and  printmaker Roland Oudot (1897-1991) famous for his Modernist landscapes. This 17th Century doorway was once the entrance to a school of surgery and later to an art academy. Measuring 18" x 13 3/4" image, 25" x 20" framed It is titled, signed with initials and dated 57 up the left side of the sheet, It is mounted in a handsome hand decorated mat and antique frame with archival materials .  It is in excellent condition with no holes, tears, stains or toning Works by this artist can be found in the collections of a number of museums  Examples by the artist of similar works in ink and wash of this quality and condition have sold at auction for 750-1200.  

Roland Oudot, born in Paris in 1897 was a French painter and lithographer. He also did engravings, murals, theater sets and book illustrations. He was a student at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, in the studio of Edward Eugene Morand and Leon Bakst. Influenced by pictorial modernity of the early 20th century, and in particular Cubism his work evolved into a style borrowed from the French Barbizon tradition of landscape Roland Oudot belongs to the painters group "Poetic Reality" group of seven other artists (Maurice Brianchon, Christian Caillard, Jules Cavaillès, Raymond Legueult Roger Limouse Andre and Kostya Planson Terechkovitch)