François Baboulet : Paysage de bord de mer (Coastal Landscape), c. 1988 (Ballpoint pen)

By BABOULET François

François Baboulet (1914–2010)
Paysage de bord de mer (Coastal Landscape), c. 1988
Ballpoint pen (Bic)
Dedicated and signed by hand, upper right: “Pour Yves Guérin, en toute sympathie, F. Baboulet”

Dimensions:
Sheet 29.7 × 21 cm (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in.) — Image: the full sheet

Condition: good condition, unframed

Provenance: Livre d’Or de Yves Guérin, compiled 1963–1992 (single-owner provenance).

Description: A finely worked pen drawing of a coastal landscape — a tall tree framing the left, a village with a church spire and the sea beyond, mountains rising behind, sailing boats on the shore and figures gathering near baskets in the foreground. The animated, hatched penwork is characteristic of Baboulet’s draughtsmanship. François Baboulet was a French painter, draughtsman and illustrator, trained at the Beaux-Arts of Toulouse and Paris (atelier of André Devambez); a “peintre de la réalité poétique,” he was appointed Peintre officiel de la Marine in 1973 and long served as president of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, painting landscapes, marines and still lifes in a figurative tradition indebted to Chardin, Vuillard and Bonnard. Coastal scenes of towns and inlets with gathering figures are characteristic of his work. Signed and dedicated by hand.

Price : 100,00 € ( 113.00 USD )