ELIE LASCAUX (1888-1969) 3 Original ink drawings, signed and dedicated.

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1) Church of Saint-Denis des Murs (haute vienne) Original ink drawing dedicated and signed "Elie Lascaux" lower right. "A Mademoiselle Marie-Thérèse [Lagrange], hommages respectueux, amitié, Saint Léonard 1942". [To Mademoiselle Marie-Thérèse [Lagrange], with respect, friendship, Saint Léonard 1942] 32 x 24.5 cm 2) Bringing in the hay Original ink drawing dedicated and signed "Elie Lascaux" lower right. "To Marie-Thérèse Lagrange" Saint léonard 1943. Pencil sketch on verso. 20.2 x 32 cm 3) "La Galamache" / "Le Repaire" (The Den) Original ink drawing dedicated and signed "Elie" top right. "Bonne Fête et vive Marie [Happy feast day and long live Marie] / Saint Léonard 1945" Representing in the foreground the "Galamache", the "Lejeune" mill and in the background the "Repaire" where the Kahnweiler and Queneau families took refuge during the German occupation in Saint Léonard de Noblat in the Haute Vienne. 24.5 x 32 cm Élie Lascaux, a French naive painter, settled in Montmartre at the end of the First World War. There he met Georges Limbour and Suzanne Valadon, who encouraged him to paint and introduced him to Max Jacob. Lascaux also met André Malraux, Raymond Queneau, but also André Beaudin and Juan Gris. In 1922, he met Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, an art dealer, who became his dealer and protector. During the Second World War, he took refuge in a villa near Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in the Limousin region, together with other Jewish people: Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler, Michel Leiris, founder of the Collège de Sociologie, and the writer Raymond Queneau. For three years, the protagonists of this exodus read, wrote, drew and supported each other in the face of adversity: «three years of happiness, paradise in the shadow of the crematoria», said Kahnweiler. ‘Virgin and Child’ was painted during this period. Élie Lascaux was also a good friend of Pablo Picasso, who supported him in the 1960s for his boldness and perseverance. Picasso had a collection of drawings by Élie Lascaux.