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Original drawing by Lissac depicting a filming location 'The three musketeers' set in a Normandic village near the coast of with lots of humorous developing in around the set. Lissac seemed to have had a trademark for this kind of Hidden object pictures/puzzles publishing them as spread-pages in notable magazines. Condition is very good. The work has a new frame in marine blue. Singed with a studio stamp bottom right 'ATELIER P. LISSAC'

BIOGRAPHIE

Pierre Lissac (1878 - 1955) was a French artist and illustrator. He was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris on July 13, 1897, on the recommendation of Jean-Paul Laurens and the Orientalist painter Benjamin-Constant. He studied under Jules Lefebvre and, at the Académie Julian, under Tony Robert-Fleury.

From the 1910s onward, signing his work 'Pierlis' or 'Kiss', he contributed to a significant number of illustrated humor magazines, such as L'Assiette au beurre, Le Rire, La Vie parisienne, Fantasio, La Baïonnette (1915-1918), and Les Annales politiques et littéraires. He also produced regionalist and genre scenes, sometimes engraved, for publications like La Revue limousine, L'Illustration, Demain, and Le Matin.

In 1924, at the height of his fame as a caricaturist, he revived the Société des dessinateurs humoristes (Society of Humorous Cartoonists). From 1920 to 1950, Lissac illustrated a large number of books: novels by contemporary authors (including François Mauriac), notably using wood engravings; children's books (the Bibliothèque Verte and Pourpre collections, as well as albums by the Toulouse-based artist B. Sirven); and also some erotic editions sold by subscription. Advertisements have also been cataloged (Nicolas establishments, Hennessy Cognac, L'Union insurance).

Pierre Lissac pursued a career as a painter, was a member and exhibitor of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, the Salon des Indépendants (1907, 1910), and the Salon d'Automne, sometimes under the regionalist label of "member of the Limousin art scene in Paris." In 1937, he presented works at the Paris International Exposition.

At the outbreak of World War II, he managed to escape to Morocco, where he settled until 1945, opening a studio in Rabat and producing Orientalist watercolors (landscapes, street scenes), which he exhibited as far away as Algeria. He returned to Morocco regularly between 1950 and 1951.

In 2005, part of his studio's collection was dispersed at auction.

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