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Study of a Breton man pencil 24 x 17cm

Footnote: Provenance: Hubert Faure, London The present lot probably dates from between 1910 and 1911 during the period when Henry Lamb is known to have stayed with the Favenac family in Pont-Aven, a commune on the Southern Coast of Brittany most closely associated with Paul Gaugin. Lamb, like many artists during the late 19th and early 20th century, was attracted to the rugged Brittany coast as a primitive antithesis to the over-crowded, and apparently sophisticated, cities. Although Lamb is known to have stayed with the Favenacs in 1909, his earliest surviving Breton drawings date from 1910.

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