Viticulture (cultivating the vineyard)

 

Alfred Gaspart

  1900 - 1993 (biography)

c. 1935  

pencil drawing with watercolor 

15 3/8 x 11 3/8" image 

blue ink stamp monogram 

 

inscribed: "metre les ceps plus pres" 

 

ivory wove, mounted to linen 

 

 

16684a 

$1,300.00 

From September of 1935 through 1936 Gaspart spent time in Beaune, Burgundy chronicling the wine making of the region. A book of photographs from this time, “Alfred Gaspart: One Year in the Vineyard, Photographs 1936; Jean-Michel Place, 2006” is accompanied by a series of letters to his sister about the experience: the weather, fears of bad harvests, the care of the vineyards and the production of the wine. This drawing, one of a series about the grape harvest, may have been preparatory for a mural that never materialized. This image depicts a vineyard worker cultivating the vines.