Pierre Albert Leroux Ink and Watercolor of French Officer on Horseback antique bone dice Certainly useful for the painter's

Certainly useful for the painter's among us

and the lines of the truck are pretty terrific too

and its elegant earthiness

My guess it that this wonderfully expressive carved bird is indeed the work of well known

Pierre Albert Leroux Ink and Watercolor of French Officer on Horseback antique bone dice Certainly useful for the painter'sI purchased this and a few other pieces by Pierre Albert Leroux (1890 1959) from a dealer in France I found online I just fell in love with the sense of intimacy they lend to their official, uniformed subjects (including this horse, which looks like quite an old soul to me) and no fuss manner in which they were done. While I might have guessed that he was self taught, I have learned that Leroux, born in Versailles, trained under Academic history