Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art Signed Italy and numbered on

Signed Italy and numbered on the bottom

emigrating in 1939

I think there is almost nothing more beautiful than old wooden tool handles

) cracked but stable (there's a bit of old chipping along the top edge

I don't really know the story of this wonderful

Pierre Albert Leroux Drawing of French Soldier at Camp, 1908 fine art Signed Italy and numbered onI purchased this and a few other pieces Pierre Albert Leroux (1890 1959) from a dealer in France that I found online; I think I saw this one first, and just fell in love with its immediacy, and perhaps especially the rendering of the seated cross legged next to his campfire int he background! While I might have guessed that he was self taught, I have learned that Leroux, born in Versailles, trained under Academic history painters Fernand Cormon and