1170 - Jacques Ramondot and Jacques Houplain, architecture and palm landscape, two sheets, Paris

Jacques Ramondot and Jacques Houplain, architecture and palm landscape, two sheets, Paris Two etchings, etching/wove paper "BFK Rives", each signed in pencil lower right, each with blind stamp "Galerie des Peintres-Graveurs. J. Frapier Paris" lower right, 1) Jacques Ramondot (1928 to 1999), signed "Jacques Ramondot.", additionally signed in the plate lower left, architectural composition with a slanting roof with awning, stacks and cubic buildings, 2) Jacques Houplain (1920 Luneray to 2020 Limoux), signed "JHouplain", landscape with tall palms, cacti and mountains in the background under a pale sky, with plate margin, age-appropriate good condition, partly slightly creased, Houplain stained in the lower half, image 17.5x23.5 cm (HxW, largest size), overall each 25x32 cm (HxW) Jacques Ramondot, born in 1928 and died in 1999, won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1954 as a pupil of Goerg, Cami and Galanis and then lived as a scholarship holder at the Villa Medici in Rome. Jacques Houplain, born in Luneray in 1920 and died in Limoux in 2020, completed his studies at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1945, received the Prix Abd-el-Tif in 1949 and was a member of the Société des peintres-graveurs français from 1956; as an illustrator he created, among other things, sheets for the "Chants de Maldoror", and his prints are held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Galerie des peintres-graveurs in Paris, founded by Edmond Frapier and from 1924 publisher of Bonnard, Dufy, Maillol and Van Dongen, was reopened in 1959 by his son Jacques Frapier on the boulevard Montparnasse and existed until 1985. BFK Rives wove paper from the paper mill in Rives, founded in 1787, is made of pure cotton and is the standard paper for etchings, in which the drawing scratched into the ground and etched is printed in intaglio from the copper plate onto the dampened paper.