Georges MÉLIÈS (Paris, 1861-1938). The beggar. Caricature... Lot 26

Georges MÉLIÈS (Paris, 1861-1938). The beggar. Caricature in ink heightened with oil pastel and colored pencil, inscribed at the top "Good nougat madam: never sick, never fed!! always good character! always many children! It is always the Ptichichi the Ptichicha" and signed at the bottom left (pin holes, stains). Framed by "P. LIONIS" in Le Havre. Height : 35 cm. 35 cm - Width : 22 cm A pioneer in the use of effects and tricks in cinema, Georges Méliès pursued his first vocation throughout his career, drawing (and more particularly caricature). Forbidden by his father to study Fine Arts, he joined Gustave Moreau's studio and published satirical drawings in the newspaper La Griffe. His caricature work was all the more important and recognised as he devoted one of his first films to it, the "Dessinateur express" in 1896. Probably made around 1907 in Mers-Les-Bains, such a set is particularly rare on the market due to its coherence and the testimony of the drawing talent of the "enchanter of reality". The French film library has nearly seventy of his caricatures.