Abel FAIVRE Ink Caricature Humor Sunstroke Doctor Woman Granny

  
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 (fruits). Abel Faivre was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Poncet at the École des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, where he entered in 1886, and then of Benjamin-Constant and Jules Lefebvre in Paris. He also received advice from Renoir.