Abel FAIVRE Ink Caricature Humor Sunburn Doctor Woman Grandma

  

Signed at the bottom right. Support: 24.5 x 25 cm. Opens: 18 x 24.5 cm.

Faivre, Abel F or Jules Abel. French, 19th - 20th century, male.

Born on March 30, 1867, in Lyon; died in August 1945. Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, illustrator. Genre scenes, portraits, figures, nudes, interiors, still lifes (fruit). Abel Faivre was a student of Jean-Baptiste Poncet at the Lyon School of Fine Arts, where he entered in 1886, and then of Benjamin-Constant and Jules Lefebvre in Paris. He also received advice from Renoir.