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| THEOPHILE-ALEXANDRE STEINLEN Swiss, 1859-1923 An inscription on the back of this work reads “Exb [exhibited] Steinlen gal[lery] Slatkin, n.142” and bears an exportation stamp from Paris. This appears to have belonged to a collection of Steinlen drawings, pastels, and watercolors shown at the Charles Slatkin Gallery in New York in 1963. The Art Nouveau painter, illustrator and printmaker was born in Switzerland but lived and worked in the artistic community in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, where he settled permanently after 1881. His first major commissions were for posters for the cabaret hotspot, Le Chat Noir. He was an important member of the artistic community and associated with writers such as Emile Zola, as well as poets, composers and artists including Toulouse-Lautrec. |