Léon-paul Fargue (1876-1947) Paris, View Of Montmartre

Léon-Paul FARGUE (1876-1947) Paris, view of Montmartre, c.1900, oil on canvas, 38x46cm, signed lower right. Annotated on the back on the frame: "Rue Chevalier de la Barre".
Rare painting by Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet and writer, author of the "Pedestrian of Paris", at the time when he frequented the Bohème de Montmartre under the shadow of Verlaine and the Cabaret du Chat Noir, he then meets Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, André Gide and Edouard Vuillard.