Florane (louis Blanchard, Dit) (1869-1939) "le Viaduc De Néris Les Bains"

Florane (Louis Blanchard dit) (1869-1939)
"Le Viaduc de Néris les Bains"
Oil on paper or cardboard signed lower left (15x22 visible)
Coaster 36x28 (unframed)

- €260 -

Louis Marie Émile Blanchard dit Florane, born on May 8, 1869 in Castanet-Tolosan and died October 17, 1939 in Montvicq, is a French painter, draftsman and illustrator. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse. Between 1901 and 1910, he was in Paris where he became known as an illustrator for Le Rire, l'Assiette au beurre, La Caricature, Le Frou-frou, Sans-Gêne, Le Temoin, Le Continental, Les Temps nouvelles , and composed the covers of some Illustrated Gil Blas…, during which time he befriended Charles Léandre, Steinlen and Toulouse Lautrec.
During the First World War, Florane was mobilized in the Allier as a nurse, in Lavault-Sainte-Anne and after 1918, he taught drawing in Montluçon. In 1926, he delivered six color plates to Paris-Noël. He also reconnected with the former Salon des humoristes where he had exhibited in 1912 and had been noticed by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Then his paintings were presented at the Salon des artistes français: in 1935, his village cabaret was purchased by the State for the Montluçon museum. Florane also painted during her many travels the landscapes of Touraine, Brittany, Provence and the Côte d'Azur, but also of Tuscany and Umbria in 1931, of Naples…

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