Facade of Notre Dame de Paris

Pencil signed in the lower right, artist's stamp in red ink in the lower left. Pencil numbered 81 in an edition of 140. Catalog: Novak 185. Plate measures 10 x 7 1/4 on 14 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch watermarked wove paper. Plate monogrammed in the upper right. T. F. Simon was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as Asia and the U.S. He lived in Paris from 1905-1913, then returned to Prague to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts. Simon was an exceptional painter and printmaker, and is best known for his atmospheric color etchings and aquatints.