Sunday, October 10, 2021

Georges de Feure (Fin de Siècle Paris)

Georges de Feure
Fonty - Concert Européen - Tous les Soirs
1890
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
La Dépêche
1902
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Salon des Cent
1895
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Jane Derval - Folies Bergère
1904
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
La Loїe Fuller
dans sa création nouvelle, Salomé

1895
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Marjolaine
1896
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Paris-Almanach
1894
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
L'Horloge
1894
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Edmée Lescot - Casino de Paris
1890
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
Le Meilleur des Thés
Société des Palais Indiens

1896
lithograph (poster)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Georges de Feure
La Source du Mal
1894
lithograph
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georges de Feure
Design for Hallway with Wrought-Iron Details
ca. 1925
watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georges de Feure
Designs for Wardrobe, Chair, Bureau and Washstand
ca. 1925
watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georges de Feure
Fashion Illustration
1903
watercolor
private collection

Georges de Feure
Le Cirque Corvi
ca. 1893
gouache and watercolor
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

"Georges Joseph Van Sluyters, better known as Georges de Feure, was born in Paris in 1868 into a Belgian and Dutch family.  In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war, the family moved to Amsterdam.  In 1886 De Feure was accepted at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, but left in dissatisfaction after a short time and returned to Paris.  In 1890 he settled in Montmartre and became a student of Jules Chéret.  During the next decade De Feure produced a stream of popular lithographic posters, while also painting independently and illustrating books.  In 1903 he mounted retrospective exhibitions in Paris and several other European cities.  After 1910 he began to design sets and costumes for theater productions, as well as jewelry, ceramics, and interiors.  Yet by the time the Great Depression hit, the artist's style had fallen out of fashion, and he descended into poverty, dying in 1943 during the Paris Occupation."

– from biographical notes published by Galerie des Modernes, Paris