Poster By Dubout For An Exhibition At The René Kieffer Gallery Bookstore, Paris, 1975

Albert Dubout is a French cartoonist, poster artist, filmmaker and painter. His drawing is characterized by its convoluted line and caricatured characters, little gentlemen in hats, very large ladies in dresses and lively crowd scenes. After studying at the high school in Nîmes, then at the School of Fine Arts in Montpellier, where he met his first wife, Renée Altier, he moved to Paris in 1922. His first drawings appeared in L'Écho des étudiants de Montpellier in 1923. In 1929, Philippe Soupault, literary director at Kra publishing house, had him illustrate his first book: Les Embarras de Paris by Boileau. That year, he also exhibited a series of paintings at the Salon des humoristes including L'Isolé, L'Oubli, Le Réveillon à la Chambre des députés and En attendant la gloire.