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Jean-Emile Laboureur
Jean-Emile Laboureur
Jean-Emile Laboureur

Jean-Emile Laboureur

French, 1887 - 1947
BiographyFrench, 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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