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Michael Blaker R.E.
(Hove 1928 – 2018 Ramsgate)
Winter in Montmartre – the Lapin Agile
Winter in Montmartre – the Lapin Agile
340 x 438 mm
Original etching and aquatint and colour wash, c1992.
Signed in pencil, entitled and numbered 27/350.
On Somerset cream wove.
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Information about the Print
In 1950 on a visit to Paris Blaker had witnessed with pleasure similar priests.
In his Autobiography he records
"As I passed the entrance to Sacré Coeur a cadaverous priest passed me, his mouth open, his eyes turned upwards…
I painted him as I saw him, contrasted with two more jovial clerics, their skirts creating volutes beneath which their black boots skimmed happily. I have made several subsequent versions of this subject, over long periods of time ..."
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