Jean-Emile Laboureur

French, 1887-1947

1877 born in Nantes, France

1895 traveled to Paris intending to study law at the Sorbonne, the great wood engraver Auguste Lepere taught him woodcutting

1913 invented a cubist idiom all his own

1915 began experimenting with engraving

1943 died

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