Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941) Press illustration:... Lot 34

Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941) Press illustration: William II and the allegory of Science India ink, gouache and colored pencil on book cover paper Un ancien ami Le Livre d'or de l'Angélus de Millet Paris A. Ferroud et Bénézit-Constant 1891 Signed lower left Inscribed on back in pencil The much-vaunted civilization of the Germans is the monstrous alliance of science and brutality for the enslavement of humanity M. Bakounine Size: 50 x 36.4 cm. Provenance: Collection of painter Georges Marcel BURGUN (1875-1964), friend of the artist, then by descent. Tack holes, minor soiling, slight paper discoloration and foxing, discreet folds, small tears with missing edges. This drawing is part of a group of 30 works that is a perfect example of the illustrative work of Maximilien Luce, better known to the general public for his neo-impressionist works. He began collaborating with the press at the end of the 19th century, but it was during the First World War (1914-1918), when the drawings presented here were produced, that his pen was most prolific. His anti-militarist and anti-German compositions are representative of the pages published in La Bataille Syndicaliste, a revolutionary syndicalist journal published between 1911 and 1915.