Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Monotype strongly patterned street scenes of

strongly patterned street scenes of adobe buildings with people in native dress

lithographs and color woodcuts

large and witty figure subject in color by the father of the Art Brut movement or "Raw Art"

Her mature work is distinguished by playful inventions of organic form as seen here with many later compositions based on the bilateral symmetry she observed in nature

Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Monotype strongly patterned street scenes ofLithograph, 1897, Ed. unknown, 12 1 16 x 9 3 16, printed in a warm brown ink, and signed in pencil by Boutet. This lithograph appearred on the cover of Boutet's softbound folio "Autour d'Elles", with studies from the female nude published in Paris in 1897, edited by Paul Ollendorff with plate captions, and a preface by Georges Montorgueil. In the folio version there is additional blank space above the model where the folio title is printed in cursive.