"Florane (louis Blanchard Dit) (1869-1939) “the Peasant In A Red Coat” Pastel"
Florane (Louis Blanchard dit) (1869-1939)“The Peasant in a Red Coat”
Pastel signed lower right (54x35 visible)
Framed under glass (78x57)
- €460 -
Louis Marie Émile Blanchard dit Florane, born May 8, 1869 in Castanet-Tolosan and died October 17, 1939 in Montvicq, was a French painter, draftsman 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 beurre, La Caricature, Le Frou-frou, Sans-Gêne, Le Témoin, Le Continental, Les Temps nouveaux, and designed the covers for several Gil Blas illustrés…, 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 former members of the 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 his many travels the landscapes of Touraine, Brittany, Provence and the Côte d'Azur, but also Tuscany and Umbria in 1931, Naples…
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