Emmanuel POIRÉ - Lot 135

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Emmanuel POIRÉ - Lot 135
Emmanuel POIRÉ CARICATURAL DRAWING OF Emmanuel POIRÉ dit CARAN D'ACHE (1858-1909) Drawing in Indian ink on paper entitled "A l'Elysée" and signed lower right. It shows the president (Felix Faure?): oH! You don't have to take it all off...You can leave that. And workers are taking possession of the Elysée Palace to preside over the removal of the "N" and the eagles - vestiges of another regime - to replace them by other more modern initials (close up a writing on the back). Dim sheet A sight: 36 x 50 cm Emmanuel Poiré, born November 6, 1858 in Moscow, was a French cartoonist and cartoonist of Russian origin. When he reached the age of majority, he emigrated to France to do his military service, in order to regain French nationality. He quickly adopts the pseudonym Caran d'Ache, directly transcribed from the Russian karandach (карандаш), a word meaning "pencil. » From 1886, he published his cartoons in Le Chat noir, Le Tout-Paris, La Vie militaire, La Caricature, le Journal, among others. He also tried his hand at comics in 1885, with The Marlborough Story. In 1898, Caran d'Ache was also co-founder, editor, cartoonist and animator of the newspaper Psst...!6,7, a satirical anti-dreyfusard weekly. For the shadow theatre of the cabaret Le Chat noir, he created L'Épopée, a play in Chinese shadow on the theme of the Napoleonic Wars. This show, first performed on 27 December 1886, was a great success. In 1898, Caran d'Ache was also co-founder, editor, cartoonist and animator of the newspaper Psst...!6,7, a satirical anti-Dreyfusard weekly. Along with other artists and men of letters including the painters Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, the poets José-Maria de Heredia, Armand Silvestre, the novelist Jules Verne,... he was a member of the Ligue de la patrie française, the anti-dreyfusarde league8,9. From 1903 onwards, he began to create wooden toys, often articulated, and sold in bookshops: dogs, lions, bears, etc. He died in Paris on February 25, 1909 and was buried in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines.
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