Jean-Louis Forain (1852-1931): Etude de Nus, de Dos, c.1900
Pochoir, Signed in the stone c.1900-1902
Sight 21.5 × 31.5 cm, Sheet31 × 47.5 cm, Frame 19.25” x 24”
One of four works for a proposed Vollard portfolio of original prints by Forain, Renoir, Cezanne, and others. It was never editioned and only a few impressions of this “seated woman seen from the rear” were printed. According to Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogue by Una Johnson “Ambroise Vollard Editeur”, only a few impressions exist.
Jean-Louis Forain (1852 - 1931), a French Impressionist painter, lithographer and etcher. Guillaume Apollinaire considered Forain among the most significant of living artists. Edouard Vuillard found Forain drawings equal to Eugene Delacroix or Honore Daumier. Forain participated in four Impressionist exhibitions in 1879 - 1884. A follower of Daumier, friend and protege of Degas, Forain created numerous scenes of the Law Courts and other Parisian institutions plus social satires as well as caricatures on late 19th and early 20th-century French life.
Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)

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