Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941) Press illustration:... Lot 43

Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941) Press illustration: soldier in front of a porte cochère India ink 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 twice lower left Size: 50 x 36.4 cm. Provenance: Collection of the artist's friend Georges Marcel BURGUN (1875-1964), then by descent. Tack holes, minor soiling, slight paper discoloration and foxing, small paper loss at one edge, small folds, paper slightly curled. 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.