After Jean Louis Forain - Early 20th Century Lithograph Two Figures

Description

After Jean Louis Forain - Original Early 20th Century Lithograph. Discoloured as shown.

Jean-Louis Forain (1852–1931) was a French Impressionist painter, lithographer, watercolourist and etcher. He began his career working as a caricaturist for several Paris journals including Le Monde Parisien and Le rire satirique. He studied at the École des Beaux Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. He befriended poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine and was the youngest artist to frequent and participate in the feverish debates led by Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas at the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes. He joined the Impressionist circle in time to take part in the fourth independent exhibition in 1879; he participated in three of the four landmark shows that followed between 1879 and 1884. Forain was also greatly influenced by Honoré Daumier. In 1931, shortly before his death, he was made a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Followers and admirers of Forain's work include Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The drawing of which this is a print dates from after 1880 as Forain changed his signature from "J.L. Forain" to "Forain" after 1880, when Degas remarked that it resembled another contemporary’s signature.

Size

24.2 x 17.5cm (9.5" x 6.9")