Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
French, 1859-1923
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen was born in Lausanne in 1859. He was naturalized French in 1901. He was a painter, engraver, illustrator, poster artist and sculptor. Before settling in Paris, he made a detour to Mulhouse where one of his uncles placed him in the studio of one of the best lithographers of the time. He settled definitively in Montmartre in 1881. Willette introduced him to his companions of the Cabaret du Chat-Noir animated by Rodolphe Salis. He met Toulouse-Lautrec, Forain, Léandre, Debussy, Eric Satie, Verlaine, Alphonse Allais and Aristide Bruant. He took part in the performances of the famous cabaret's shadow theater with animal stories and, most often, sequences featuring cats, for which he has a particular affection. The felines will appear throughout his activity as "parentheses" in a tormented work. There is, in this torment, the expression of no personal problem but a painful compassion for the lives of the exploited and marginal beings. He painted and drew idylls, balls and bastrings, workers, kids and gosselin, the poor, the little workers, girls and marlous. He sometimes made posters. In the most successful of them (« Le lait pur de la Vingeanne » et le « Fer Bravais ») he imposed, relevant or not, the presence of cats.
In 1901, Steinlen worked for L'Assiette au beurre , the most virulent satirical newspaper ever published and takes readily to target the institutions of the 3rd Republic.
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Artist: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Double sided crayon drawing in colors: Study for "The Shoe" (recto)
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Double sided crayon drawing:
Front: Study for "The Shoe"
Reverse: Studies of Figures
Blue crayon, red and black crayons
Image size: 19.25 x 15.375 inches
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STEINLEN Drawing charcoal Women walking in the street in Paris Art nouveau 20e
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in PARIS, FR
Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN
Lausanne, 1859 Paris, 1923
Charcoal
25 x 30 cm
Signed lower right
Inscription at the verso "A St Lazare"
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Original ink drawings "Trois Portraits" by Steinlen
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Hinsdale, IL
STEINLEN, THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE
(1859 -1923)
"Trois Portraits"
(Three Portraits)
Original ink drawings, c. 1900
Initialed in ink by the artist
Bears artist monogram stamp in black in...
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The Forgiveness
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in London, GB
THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN 1859-1923
Lausanne 1859-1923 Paris (Swiss/French)
Title: The Forgiveness, ca. 1901
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By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
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French Landscape Painting, C. 1900
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