Raymond Roussel

Location

Country: France
City: Paris
Place: British Embassy

This series features anonymous graves and monuments at Le Père Lachaise, and identified gravesites of the following people: Allan Kardec, Guillaume Apollinaire, Anna de Brancovan, Edith Piaf, Frederick Chopin, Gertrude Stein, Théodore Géricault, Georges Seurat, Honoré de Balzac, Jim Morrison, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, and Raymond Roussel.

Père Lachaise Cemetery is one of the most visited sites in Paris which was laid out in the early years of the nineteenth century according to the designs of Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Francis Wishart has depicted several of the numerous monuments in Père Lachaise, some commemorating famous musicians, thinkers and writers, and others which have become anonymous memorials. Some are well-tended, others have fallen into disrepair; both appeal to the artist, whose interest in the dilapidated monuments can be traced back to the eighteenth-century tradition of the picturesque.

Places

France, Paris

Subjects

topography, tree, gravestone

Materials & Techniques

etching, aquatint

Artist

Francis Wishart (1951 - )

Title

Raymond Roussel

Portfolio Title

Le Père Lachaise

Edition

9/75

Date

1978

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions

height: 19.00 cm, width: 27.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Francis Kyle Gallery, January 1979

Inscription

below image: 9/75 / Francis Wishart

GAC number

14349