Chas. Le Grand

Chas. Le Grand. Sculptor. Woodcarver. St-Jean-Port-Joli (?), Quebec. Active 1930’s.

Shas. Le Grand made painted flat-plane carvings of Quebec people in traditional dress. His work can be considered extremely rare. (I have only ever seen one example.)*

Shown below is a signed example of a Quebec couple dated 1938 and marked ‘Hand Carved by Chas. Le Grand Quebec’.

A carved Quebec Couple by Chas. Le Grand:

Chas. Le Grand. Carved Quebec Couple. Signed, dated 1938.

The mark of Chas. Le Grand, Quebec:

Chas. Le Grand. Carved Quebec Couple Signed dated 1938. The mark.

*.Chas. Le Grand was one of several Quebec flat-plane woodcarvers whose carving careers seemed to have stopped sometime in the 1940’s, if not at the end of the 1930’s. (The second world war may have been a factor for some.)