Cleveland Museum of Art

The Breaking Waves, Tide of September 1901

Auguste Louis Lepère

Date

1901

Medium

color woodcut

Culture

France, early 20th Century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

In the 1880s, Lepère was an early exponent of the woodcut as a fine art medium, experimenting with the technique and exhibiting his prints. His example probably encouraged Henri Rivière to produce woodcuts in the Japanese manner (see Wave in the Rain). In fact, Lepère and Rivière created the first French color woodcuts conceived and printed entirely in imitation of Japanese woodcut techniques. By 1890, woodcut would be taken up by the sculptor Aristide Maillol and such painters as Félix Vallotton and Paul Gauguin, and by 1895, a full-scale revival was underway.

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