The sheet is 37.8 cm by 28.4 cm. Stunning.
Note on the artist
Albert Marius Hippolyte Decaris,
Born May 6, 1901 in Sotteville-Lès-Rouen Seine-Maritime (named Seine-Inférieur until 1955) died January 1, 1988 in Paris, painter, decorator, engraver. Renowned for his talent, he works in watercolor and the art of ink drawing, engraving, he has engraved numerous postage stamps (500 to 600) including a Marianne.
He studied at the Estienne school, then in the engraving workshop of Antoine Dezarrois, he entered the École des beaux-arts de Paris in the Cormon workshop, and between 1924 and 1936 at the Villa Médecis in Rome with Albert Besnard as director.
He exhibited at the Jean Charpentier Gallery a series of eighty Indian ink drawings in several towns in the south of France (Orange, Vaison-La-Romaine, Arles, Saint Rémy-de-Provence, Les Baux, Aix en Provence, Pont-Du-Gard) in 1925 he received the silver medal at the Salon of French Artists, in 1929 the first Rome prize for engraving for his Eve Before Sin
The 1930s found him illustrating the poems of Léon Cathlin, the works of Alfred de Vigny Les Destiny, Shakespeare's Macbeth, and other prestigious authors.
He exhibits at the Galerie Charpentier with the sculptor Pierre Dionisi.
He works as an interior decorator, creating murals. In New York he creates a fresco.
Official painter of the French Navy in the early sixties,
Member of the board of directors of the Société Nationale des Beaux Art for the section from 1970 to 1978
He left us more than 600 magnificent large burins, numerous watercolors and ink washes.
One of the greatest French engravers of all time, he dominated the genre in the 1960s, with a touch that is unique to him. Up for grabs!