"Helen" by Leon Louis Dolice, Amer., (1892-1960) Woodcut

"Helen" by Leon Louis Dolice, Amer., (1892-1960) WoodcutEtching, ca. 1930's 40's, 5 3 8 x 5, pale mat line, stains, abrasions to margins, stain along top image edge, with surface loss and thinning to adjacent margin above plate mark, diagonal printing creases to image left of woman, pale mat line and light stains to margins, signed in pencil and initialed L. D. imp. in pencil denoting an impression printed by Dolice, on thick cream wove paper. A lovely, intimate domestic scene of a nude woman dressing at

and is there

With the original descriptive label

It is clear that this course of study resulted in an exceptional early body of work

Fascinated and inspired by the unfettered art of children and the insane

on thin smooth cream wove japan paper

on cream laid japan paper with a vertical thinning of pulp at center

13 x 12-1/4

showing distinct affinities to the work of  Louis Schanker and the Art Brut of Jean Dubuffet

on warm white RIVES BFK paper

His prints are not commonly encountered

7-3/8 x 4-7/8

small margins as issued