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

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