Edy Le Grand - Man Confronted with a Host of Reaching Hands - Lithograph AP1467

An arresting image by this noted French artist. Limited edition 88/150. Art measures 10 3/4" x 14 1/2" and the frame is 18 1/8" x 21 1/4". EDOUARD (EDY) LEGRAND French, 1892–1970 Edy-Legrand, whose real name was Edward Louis Warschawsky Leon, was born in Bordeaux in 1892, and died in Bonnieux in 1970. He was a French illustrator and painter. He made the first part of his career in advertising illustration and literature. Later, his work was devoted to painting. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris, the Art Academy in Munich, and then lived and worked for Tolmer Publishing House in Paris for much of his career. After the Second World War, he spent much time in New York where he worked as an illustrator for various publishers. Legrand was born in Bordeaux, France to a French mother and a Russian-Jewish father. In 1919, as a young painter , Edy-Legrand created the first children's book, Macao and Cosmage or Experience Happiness, for the New French Review. The compositions are co