Artist

Derancourt

Derancourt is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

He collected the day-to-day in ink: barber poles, cigar-store Indians, the exact curl of a newsboy’s cap, little slices of nineteenth-century life nobody else bothered to draw. Look close at the H Beard Print Collection and you’ll see how he turned shop signs and street cries into tiny histories, one cross-hatched line at a time. Slide over to the print and you’ll spot the same kind of everyday heroism in the fold of a coat or the tilt of a hat.

Works by Derancourt

Collections represented

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