Portrait Of The Sculptor Paul Simon By Paul Ledoux, Drawing Male Artist XX

Beautiful and rare document, portrait of the sculptor at 25 years old. Son of painters Lucien Simon and Jeanne Dauchez, Paul Simon is a student of Antoine Bourdelle. He specialized in animal sculpture. The drawing is by Paul Eugène Ledoux (1884-1960) a French painter, engraver and illustrator of Alsatian origin. Student of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-Arts in Paris
Graphite on paper 27 x 21cm
With frame 36 x 30 cm
signed dedicated dated
"to my friend Paul Simon
17 mars 1917 
Paul Ledoux"

references:
https://journals.openedition.org/alsace /1940 https://www.coze.fr/2018/09/exposition-oeuvres-de-paul-ledoux/