LHOTE André

André LHOTE
1885-1962 

« La Traversée » or "Boat crossing" 
Original Ink Drawing on paper by the Cubist artist André Lhote.
The signature is hardly visible but it exist.
Signed bottom right

Ms Bermann Martin ( the expert who made the Catalogue Raisonné of André Lhote ) has kindly confirmed the authenticity of the work.

Size unframed 14,2 x 19,7 inches ( 36 x 50 cm. )
Size framed 20,5 x 27,6 inches ( 52 x 70 cm. )
The frame is included.

André Lhote:

French painter, among the representatives of the cubist movement.

He first followed sculpture courses at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and was apprenticed for ten years in the studio of a sculptor before coming to painting.

He moved to Paris in 1907 and joined the Cubist movement from 1912 without rejecting classicism and the figurative. He wants to inscribe modernity, not in the rupture, but in the continuity of the tradition.

And starting in 1918 he set out to teach painting and even founded his own Academy in the Montparnasse district.