Significance of Aunt Kate's "Le Chemin du Liere?

KARWARNE · #1 Jun 21, 2007, 05:46 AM

I have what appears to be a hand-pulled print of a French landscape entitled
in the lower left corner "Le Chemin du Liere" hand written in pencil. to the left of this
appears 'sLz' in a circle and farther to the left is the number '60'.
In the upper right margin of the print appears "Paris Etching Society NY USA".
In the lower right margin the hand written name "T E LeComte" appears.
Are you able to give me some background on this water color and ink work and whether it has any value?

R Warne

Curlyben · Jun 21, 2007, 05:51 AM

Here's my usual C&P on this subject:

Quote:

Originally Posted by PES

One of the best resources that I have found concerning Paris Etching Society is from Google answers, located HERE.
The response from scriptor-ga is very insightful.

Basically PES was set up by Sidney Z. Lucas, hence the SZL mark. He owned a printshop in New York in the years 1940 to 1960 where He
produced a large number of prints after old etchings.
Generally, prints by Mr. Lucas seem not to reach very high prices.
At the end of the day they look nice, but that's about it.
Most of what is talked about them is from people "boiler rooming" the price on the supposed French history.

I hope this helps.



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