Laughing Breton by Gordon Grant, Amer., (1875-1962) Drawing 14 x 9-7/8

14 x 9-7/8

significant skinning and thinning to paper verso

enhanced by it's scarcity and presentation with original label from the famous 1939 New York World's Fair

Amos Langdown

framed with black rag mat

Laughing Breton by Gordon Grant, Amer., (1875-1962) Drawing 14 x 9-7/8Drypoint, late 1930's, Ed. 46 150, 9 7 8 x 11, signed and numbered in pencil, on cream laid paper 13 3 16 x 9 1 8. Gordon Grant's superb draftsmanship and feeling for character are certainly manifest here in this graphically bold and memorable portrait study. The tiny fly seen posing on the pencil elipse in Grant's signature however will not be manifest when The Laughing Breton arrives on your doorstep. But my, how flies time when we are photographing