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A.-l. Willette (1857-1926), Seven Deadly Sins, Original Large Format Lithographs
Adolphe-Léon Willette (1857-1926) is a painter, illustrator, poster artist, lithographer and caricaturist, was a student of Alexandre Cabanel but quickly rejected any form of academicism.
Emblematic figure of Montmartre bohemianism, much more a draftsman than a painter, he very quickly abandoned painting in favor of drawing. His graphic work is considerable and extremely diverse. Passing with ease from advertising commission to very personal caricature, from poetry to irony, demonstrating a constant social commitment, witnessing the transformations of his time, he collaborated on numerous newspapers such as the Courrier français and especially L'Assiette au beurre.
“Willette's countless cartoons will undoubtedly remain her best claim to fame. They charmed an entire generation with their alert grace, their satirical gaiety but without bitterness (…) ”Léon Deshairs told us in 1926.
The Louis-Senlecq Museum of Art and History in L'Isle-Adam devoted a retrospective to him from June to September 2014, accompanied by a catalog.
The series of lithographs of The Seven Deadly Sins was published in small format. The complete series in large format is much rarer.
We find there both the voluptuous presence of the woman who occupies a prominent place in his work and the poetic and lunar figure of Pierrot, his double, facetious and melancholy, present throughout his career.
Emblematic figure of Montmartre bohemianism, much more a draftsman than a painter, he very quickly abandoned painting in favor of drawing. His graphic work is considerable and extremely diverse. Passing with ease from advertising commission to very personal caricature, from poetry to irony, demonstrating a constant social commitment, witnessing the transformations of his time, he collaborated on numerous newspapers such as the Courrier français and especially L'Assiette au beurre.
“Willette's countless cartoons will undoubtedly remain her best claim to fame. They charmed an entire generation with their alert grace, their satirical gaiety but without bitterness (…) ”Léon Deshairs told us in 1926.
The Louis-Senlecq Museum of Art and History in L'Isle-Adam devoted a retrospective to him from June to September 2014, accompanied by a catalog.
The series of lithographs of The Seven Deadly Sins was published in small format. The complete series in large format is much rarer.
We find there both the voluptuous presence of the woman who occupies a prominent place in his work and the poetic and lunar figure of Pierrot, his double, facetious and melancholy, present throughout his career.
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