Abel Faivre

1867-1945

Painter, illustrator and cartoonist

Jules Abel Faivre was born in Lyon, France. He attended École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon[1] for three years. He then attended the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian.[2] He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français. He lived in La Croix-Valmer. Professionally, he created propaganda posters for the French Army in World War I. He drew comics for Le Rire, L'Écho de Paris, and Le Figaro.[3] His work is held in the collections of the National Library of Medicine, the University of Michigan, the Museum of Modern Art. and the Brooklyn Museum.[4][5][6][7] From Wikipedia.

Born in Lyons, 1867, died in Paris, 1945. Faivre is perhaps best remembered today for his posters, especially the stirring "on les aura" done during the First World War, but he was also a busy cartoonist, contributing from 1895 on to Le Rire, Le Journal, Le Figaro and L'echo de Paris. As a painter (he executed church murals in Saint-Maixent in western France) he was noted for his renderings of pink-cheeked girls and babies, whereas his humorous drawings are on the grotesque side."

(Source: Appelbaum, Stanley. "French satirical drawings from "L'Assiette au beurre": selection, translations, and text" Courrier Dover Publications, 1978, p. ix. From www.thevintageposter.com/artist-biography/?at=JulesAbelFaivre