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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Portrait Prints

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. His works are found in numerous Public Collections, such as Petit Palais in Geneva, Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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Artist: Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
"La grande sœur" original drypoint
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1913-10. Printed in 1913 and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Sheet size: 8 1/2 x 6 inche...
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1910s Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Portrait Prints

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"La grande sœur" original drypoint
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. Catalogue reference: Sanchez and Seydoux 1913-10. Printed in 1913 and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Plate size: 8 3/4 x 6 1/8 i...
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1910s Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Portrait Prints

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Mothu et Doria: A 19th C. Lithograph from Les Maitres de l'Affiche by Steinlen
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed 19th century color lithograph entitled "Mothu et Doria" created by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen and published between 1896 and 1899 in Paris, France by Jules Cheret in his famous series of miniature colored stone lithographs of popular Belle Epoch posters...
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Portrait - Etching by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - 1914
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original black and white etching realized in 1914 by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Signed and dated on the plate on the lo...
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