"Florane (louis Blanchard, Dit) (1869-1939) "mediterranean Landscape""
Florane (Louis Blanchard dit) (1869-1939)“Mediterranean Landscape”
Oil on paper mounted on cardboard signed lower right (30x40)
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Louis Marie Émile Blanchard dit Florane, born May 8, 1869 in Castanet-Tolosan, who died on October 17, 1939 in Montvicq, was a French painter, designer and illustrator. He studied at the Toulouse School of Fine Arts. Between 1901 and 1910, he was in Paris where he became known as an illustrator for Le Rire, L'Assiette au verre, La Caricature, Le Frou-frou, Sans-Gêne, Le Témoin, Le Continental, Les Temps nouvelles , and composed the covers of some Gil Blas illustrated…, a period during which he became friends with Charles Léandre, Steinlen and Toulouse Lautrec. During the First World War, Florane was mobilized in 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 alumni of the Salon des humouristes where he had exhibited in 1912 and had been noticed by Guillaume Apollinaire. Then his paintings were presented at the Salon of French Artists: in 1935, his village cabaret was purchased by the State for the Montluçon museum. Florane also painted during her numerous travels the landscapes of Touraine, Brittany, Provence and Côte d'Azur, but also Tuscany and Umbria in 1931, Naples…
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