Pavement Flowers And Half Salt

Amazing drawing in Indian ink and colored pencil, with gouache highlights, signed Albert Jarach, around 1900. It depicts light girls, with a sharp tongue, meeting a young black man, who shamelessly addresses him. The young man, a true dandy, with a ring on his little finger, a tight light jacket, a wide-brimmed hat, also light, is certainly a pimp from the neighborhood, familiar with the two flowers of the pavement. Albert Jarach (1874 - 1962) spent his youth in Batignoles, a then picaresque neighborhood that had nothing to envy Pigalle, not far away either. This artist worked at the beginning of the century for l'Assiette au beurre (this drawing could appear there), the illustration and many others. He is also a pioneer of the advertising poster. In the 20s he will become a more chic artist with fashion drawings in the spirit of the times. The greenness of the word of the young horizontal, very little in the spirit of our time, will seem more audible to you if you repeat it to yourself with the banter of an Arletty that we still have in our ears, who did not walk her words. The drawing is of a breathtaking virtuosity, so present in the work of the caricaturists of the turn of the century. I present the drawing in this older frame, but I can remove it and sell it in sheet. Dimensions of the drawing: 20 cm x 25 cm