Biais, Maurice 47 x 21,5

I think it is always interesting to do research about the artists who produce the pieces that I sell - that way I, and the people who ultimately buy the pieces, can understand a little bit about who produced the artwork and the world in which the artist lived. This wonderful original lithograph, from roughly 1900, was created by Maurice Biais, the husband of Jane Avril, a Moulin Rouge performer often featured by Toulouse Lautrec. In a New York Times article written about a Biais exhibit in New York in Ê1901 it was said: "Maurice Biais follows in the footsteps of Cheret ... at times he suggests the London prodigy, Aubrey Beardsley, and again he will make .... one to recall some of the caricaturists for Munich "Jugend".
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