Back to photostream

Studio Library Rochdale 242pc Venice collage14

The theme for the June 2015 BCD Meeting (British jigsaw association) was Library Puzzles and Interesting Cardboard Jigsaws. I haven't assembled this jigsaw yet and it is the only one from the Studio Library that I've come across. Most of the writing on the box has faded badly. The cut of this jigsaw of Venice, artist G Boucart, looks like that of Chad Valley. When I make up the jigsaw I'll take a better photo of the subscription rates label on the inside of the box.

 

BCD member Nicki has collected this information:

"Studio Jigsaw Library 1920’s – 1930’s

Run and ?cut by: Miss Vivienne Scott c/o Messrs Shorrock & Shorrock, 91c Drake Street, Rochdale, Lancs.

Box: Brick sized brown card with label giving Puzzle No, size, pieces on top with conditions of lending on inside top of box. 12 month subscription = 1 guinee.

Cut: Used Victory and Chad Valley in own boxes. Interlocking, no colour-line cutting

Example: No A63 242 piece “Venice” by G Boucart. 15.5” x 11.5”

 

Gaston Boucart (1878-1962) was a French painter, etcher and lithographer. Gaston Hippolyte Ambroise Boucart was born at Angouleme (Charente) and spent all his life in France. He was a pupil of the progressive artist Gustave Moreau- then later Aime Morot, Francois Flameng and Fernand Cormon at the school of fine art in Paris. Boucart specialised in painting architectural subjects, landscapes with animals and urban landscapes. He is especially known for his depictions of country lanes, his well observed interiors and all the waterways and architecture of Venice- a subject he became particularly fond of.

 

He showed his work at the Salon of French Artists in Paris from 1913 to 1939, and went on to become a member there, receiving an honourable mention in 1928 and a knighthood for his services to art in 1937. His work is represented in the museums of Angouleme and Niort.

 

966 views
1 fave
0 comments
Uploaded on June 24, 2015