Raoul SERRES (1881 - 1971) Silhouette with pipe, full-length in right profile Black pencil and stump on graph paper. Dedicated at top left "A monsieur L.Dumas, humblement," and captioned at bottom "une soirée d'ombres chinoises, lyriques, chez Le boucher, à la villa Médicis, Rome 1910, d'après un découpage de Raoul Serres, celui qui ne songeait pas qu'il serait le papa de Jobie". (Bends, small stains). 42.1 x 15 cm Raoul Serres became a member of the Société des artistes français in 1906, and exhibited at its Salon. He received an honorable mention in 1898 and a third-class medal in 1906. He was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1906, and taught engraving at the École Estienne in Paris from 1932 to 1942.