#andre gill

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For this month’s phone wallpaper I did a “cover” version of 19th century French caricaturist Andre Gíll’s Puss In Boots painting.

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André Gill La Lune May 19, 1867 Hand-colored Engraving 12"w x 18"h

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(via Histoire | AU LAPIN AGILE)

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Andre Gill (French, 1840–1885) - Puss in boots

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Artist André Gill painted the original sign in front of the Montmartre bar where he and his creative friends hung out.  It was known as "Le Lapin à Gill," or Gill’s rabbit, and this eventually gave way to humorously referencing the bar as the Lapin Agile.  The original painting was stolen in 1893, but a copy remains in its place.

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Portrait of Émile Cohl, bowing down to his mentor André Gill for the September 12, 1885 issue of Le Courrier Français by Achille Lemot, also known by the pen name “Uzès”

From Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film by Donald Crafton

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A tribute to André Gill by Émile Cohl on the cover of the magazine La Nouvelle Lune

From Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film by Donald Crafton

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Émile Cohl and his mentor, André Gill, at a Paris café in 1883.