Word: forain
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...bookkeeping was vague, his meanness unpleasant-it was Vollard who kept Gauguin on short rations in Tahiti-and his narcissism immense. "The most beautiful woman who ever lived," said Picasso, "never had her portrait painted, drawn or engraved more often than Vollard-by Cézanne, Renoir, Roussel, Bonnard, Forain, almost everybody in fact. He had the vanity of a woman, that man." But he also had an exquisitely tuned eye and a great deal of patience; the combination enabled Vollard, as publisher, to master the innumerable problems involved in producing major collaborations between artist and text...
...poster art would not have made art history if it had not been for a rebellious group of impressionist painters who wanted to get more light and air into their work and to reach a larger public. With painters such as Manet, Bonnard, Villon, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain doing the ad-cum-art work, the posters rapidly became collectors' items and more valuable than the products advertised...
...Inevitably dominating the show, as he did the posters of his time, was the work of stunted, aristocratic Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa, who put his hand to almost every variety of graphic art. But also shown were works by Lautrec's finest contemporaries: Jean Louis Forain, Alexandre Théophile Steinlen, James Ensor, Jules Chéret, Albert Guillaume, F. A. Cazals (one poster showed Poet Paul Verlaine at an exhibition...
...account of myself as the "stolid Philadelphian" in "U. S. Illustrators" . . . was acceptable enough especially when I found my name associated with Daumier and with Forain...
...experts as Joseph Herge-sheimer and Donn Byrne got half its atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...