Delivery service: Colissimo Born in Paris on November 18, 1881, Paul BAUDIER, awakened by the charm of the Gâtinais of his childhood, was very early attracted by the countryside which influenced all his work. After finishing secondary school, he became a student and collaborator of his uncle Edmond Duplessis. Introduced, around the same time, to the technique of wood engraving by his uncle and by Eugène Dété, he soon worked for the “Illustrated Life”. He exhibited in Paris, from 1900, at the Indépendants and at the Salon des Artistes Français where he presented an original wood: the portrait of his mother. He married, had three children and moved to Gentilly. He took drawing lessons at Juillan, Colarossi, in various academies, and brilliantly passed the competition for the best workers in France before his military service. Mobilized in 1914, seriously injured in the first months of the war and taken prisoner, he remained for two years in Germany, then twelve months in Switzerland, in Kartigen near Thun: there he painted and drew prison camp scenes, as well as landscapes that he successfully exhibited in Geneva. Returning to France, Paul BAUDIER became a member of the French Artist, he had already obtained, at the Salon of this Society, an honorable mention in 1903 and a medal in 1906. In 1923, he was awarded the silver medal, in 1927, a gold medal at the International Exhibition, and a Medal of Honor in 1943. Member of the committee and the Jury of French Artists of which he became President, he was made a knight in 1948 in the National Order of the Legion of 'Honor. These are the main rewards and distinctions that Paul BAUDIER will obtain during his life. They were well deserved, because this artist, tireless worker, left a considerable and prestigious body of work as a designer, painter, engraver and illustrator. Let us judge by this simple enumeration of his main works over the course of half a century. He illustrated Confessions of Saint-Augustin, The Poor Woman, by Léon Bloy, Monsieur des Lourdines, by Alphonse de Chateaubriand, Civilization, Possession of the World, The Life of Martyrs, by Georges Duhamel, The Velvet Road, Letters to The Almazone and Letters to Sistine, by Rémy de Gourmont, The Light That Goes Out, by Rudyart Kipling, The Life of Beethoven, The Life of Michelangelo, The Life of Tolstoy, by Romain Rolland, The Mistress Servant, brothers Tharaud, Amour, Odes in his honor, Romances sans motsn by Paul Verlaine, Numa Roumestan, by Alphonse Daudet, etc… Other works are published by Paul BAUDIER “at the expense of the artist”. We also owe him work carried out for bibilophile societies; he illustrates, for example in colored wood, the Elementary Letters on Botany, by Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, for bibliophile pharmacists. An eminent gourmet, his illustrations are numerous and noted. He frequented the famous Lachenal workshop group in Chatillon where he made friends among the artists he met. Under the spell of this city and its surroundings, he decided to live there and had a pavilion and workshop built in 1927 on rue des Egroux (now rue Guy Moquet). It was under the cedar of Chatillon that he enjoyed the company of his friends, the master ceramists Edmond, Jean-Jacques and Raoul Lachenal. In this always welcoming hive, he met the great Sarah Bernhardt, the painters Van Dongen, Foujita and Suzanne Tourte, the sculptors Agnès de Frumerie, Halbout, Rispal, Févola… At the same time he rubbed shoulders with renowned engravers, Edmond Dupluessis, Albert Decaris , P. A. Bouroux…, writers, Valmy Baysse, Georges d'Esparbès, Paul Valéry… In August 1929, he suffered the pain of losing his wife, so he traveled around France to illustrate for the Society of Franco-Swiss Bibliophiles, “Picture of France”, by Jules Michelet. Paul BAUDIER trained many students in wood engraving, including his eldest daughter. His son Albert-Pierre wanted to learn the printing trade at the Ecole Estienne in Paris and graduated in 1925. Paul BAUDIER introduced him to Marthe Fequet, printer and typographer, successor to Emile Fequet (who was his collaborator until 1907 by Auguste Lepère, painter-engraver). Associates, Marthe Fequet and Albert-Pierre BAUDIER print the major works of Paul BAUDIER, as well as those of the greatest French and foreign Masters of the 20th century: Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Miro, de Staël, Chagall, Arp… Type: Drawing Material:Ink Characteristics:Signed Theme:Landscape