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Blindstamp lower right in margin
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| Artist: Charles
Léandre French (1862-1934) |
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Item: em16
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| Title: Noël (Christmas) |
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Description: Cond.
A+, Original Lithograph,
issued by L'Estampe
Moderne
Issue Number 4, August 1897.
Printed by F. Champenois, Paris.
Blindstamp lower right in margin.
Signed in the stone lower right.
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat,
with framing labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat.
Certificate of Authenticity.
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of Sale
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| Sheet Size: |
12 in x 16 in |
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30.5 cm x 40.5 cm |
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| Price: $225.00 USD |
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Charles Léandre
Charles Lucien Léandre French caricaturist and painter, was born
at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Blin and Cabanel.
From 1887 he figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed
numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due
to his comic drawings and caricatures. The series of the "Gotha des
souverains," published in Le
Rire, and Leandre's other work like that seen in L'Assiette au
Beurre placed him in the front rank of modern caricaturists.
Léandre produced admirable work in lithography, and designed many
memorable posters, such as the "Yvette Guilbert." "Les nouveaux maries,"
"Joseph Prudhomme," "Les Lutteurs," and "La Femme au chien." In 1900,
at the next Exposition Universelle, he was among the five lithographic
artists selected to achieve two compositions on a selected theme.
he received a gold medal at this contest. He was created a knight
of the Legion of Honour.
In 1904, he created the Société des Peintres Humoristes. In 1921,
he got the Medal of Honour of the Société des artistes français, in
the engraving section, one of the more important honorary awards an
artist could obtain in Paris. In 1925, Léandre was promoted an Officer
of the Legion of Honour. He died in 1934 in his Caulaincourt street
studio, in Montmartre. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Mucha Cover
Not unlike the Maitre de L'Affiche series, L'Estampe
Moderne was a portfolio printed between 1897-98, published
by Imprimerie Champenois, Paris, contained 24 monthly portfolios,
with four original lithographs in each. Each commissioned only for
this series. Some of the contributing artists included Mucha, Rhead,
Meunier, Ibels, Steinlen, Willette and Grasset.
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