The Breton Cabaret

Original graphite drawing, author's initials at the bottom right.
Anti-UV and anti-reflective protective glass.
This scene represents a penn sardin behind his bar serving three bigouden
Dimensions:
without frame on view Width 25 cm Height 20 cm
with frame Width 45 cm Height 39 cm
Henry Cheffer (1880 - 1957):
Son of Emile Cheffer, engraver of Lorraine origin, and first cousin of Auguste Rodin, Henry was born in Paris in 1880. The young boy bathed in an atmosphere favorable to creation and naturally devoted himself to an artistic career. After the École des Arts Décoratifs where he was admitted in 1898, he attended the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1901. There he was a student of Bonnat, followed the classes of the portraitist Patricot and became an engraver. In 1906, Cheffer won the first Prix de Rome for engraving, and from then on began an official career that would bring him every honor and distinction. A brilliant career for a highly talented artist who has been very unjustly forgotten. A painter of reality, Cheffer was an aesthete sensitive to the beauty of the spectacle the world offered him. He translated his plastic emotion directly onto the motif in numerous sketches and watercolors or refined his engraved work in the secrecy of his studio. In 1913, he purchased land in Tréboul to build a studio facing the sea. He came there on pilgrimage for 4 months a year, which means that Brittany was at the center of his artistic life.