Steinlen Cats (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) - Softcover

Steinlen, Theophile-Alexandre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486239500 ISBN 13: 9780486239507

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Cats were Steinlen's perpetual study and signature. He put them in his famous belle epoque posters, lithographs, and magazine illustrations, and sketched them endlessly. These 66 drawings and 8 picture-stories represent the best of his scattered, rare cat depictions, available nowhere else. Artists will learn cat dynamics from the spare, expressive lines.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), one of the greatest illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, but moved permanently to Paris at the age of 23 and became a French citizen.
In addition to posters, song sheets, etchings, murals, and book illustrations, Steinlen did drawings for over 30 magazines, some of which he founded. A politically liberal Montmarte bohemian, he faithfully portrayed all aspects of Parisian life, but gave special attention to the everyday joys and sorrows of working people.
Perhaps no other sector of Steinlen's art is as strongly associated with his name today as his studies of cats. He never ceased to draw them in all their activities and moods. Cats figure prominently in some of his most famous works, such as his great poster "Pure Sterilized Milk from the Vingeanne."
The cat drawing in the present volume are reproduced from two rare volumes: a 1933 collection of previously unpublished animal drawings (Chats et autres bêtes, published in an edition of only 545 copies), and a turn-of-the-century album of picture stories without words (Des chats).

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486239500
• ISBN 13: 9780486239507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48