| General info : | | Guydo was the pen name of Guillaume le Barrois d'Orgeval, a French writer, illustrator and caricaturist.
He came from a family of ancient nobility, and had no artistic background or education.
He debuted in 1890, illustrating 'La Pupille de Pollichinelle' by O. Le Roy. Since 1893, he contributed to many satirical magazines of the time, including Le Triboulet, Nos Vieux, La Caricature and Le Chat Noir. For the latter, he drew various black cats, that became mascots for the magazine and the cabaret.
Guydo continued his career as an artist and caricaturist in prestigious magazines like Femina, Le Rire, L'Amour, L'Assiette au Beurre, Chronique Amusante, Le Frou Frou, Gil Blas, La Vie Parisienne, and La Lanterne de Bruant.
In 1908, he was one of the illustrators for the illustrated encyclopedia magazine Je Sais Tout. He began a collaboration with La Semaine de Suzette in 1905.
Guydo additionally wrote and illustrated children's books.
He was part of the Montmartre artist group in Paris.
Guydo died in 1931, and his personal diaries and memoires were destroyed during a bombing in World War II. | |
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| General info : | Guydo was the pen name of Guillaume le Barrois d'Orgeval, a French writer, illustrator and caricaturist.
He came from a family of ancient nobility, and had no artistic background or education.
He debuted in 1890, illustrating 'La Pupille de Pollichinelle' by O. Le Roy. Since 1893, he contributed to many satirical magazines of the time, including Le Triboulet, Nos Vieux, La Caricature and Le Chat Noir. For the latter, he drew various black cats, that became mascots for the magazine and the cabaret.
Guydo continued his career as an artist and caricaturist in prestigious magazines like Femina, Le Rire, L'Amour, L'Assiette au Beurre, Chronique Amusante, Le Frou Frou, Gil Blas, La Vie Parisienne, and La Lanterne de Bruant.
In 1908, he was one of the illustrators for the illustrated encyclopedia magazine Je Sais Tout. He began a collaboration with La Semaine de Suzette in 1905.
Guydo additionally wrote and illustrated children's books.
He was part of the Montmartre artist group in Paris.
Guydo died in 1931, and his personal diaries and memoires were destroyed during a bombing in World War II. | Guydo (born 22 August 1868 in Le Teilleul, France - died 28 May 1931, in Vannes, France (aged 62)) was the pen name of Guillaume le Barrois d'Orgeval, a French writer, illustrator and caricaturist.
He came from a family of ancient nobility, and had no artistic background or education.
He debuted in 1890, illustrating 'La Pupille de Pollichinelle' by O. Le Roy. Since 1893, he contributed to many satirical magazines of the time, including Le Triboulet, Nos Vieux, La Caricature and Le Chat Noir. For the latter, he drew various black cats, that became mascots for the magazine and the cabaret.
Guydo continued his career as an artist and caricaturist in prestigious magazines like Femina, Le Rire, L'Amour, L'Assiette au Beurre, Chronique Amusante, Le Frou Frou, Gil Blas, La Vie Parisienne, and La Lanterne de Bruant.
In 1908, he was one of the illustrators for the illustrated encyclopedia magazine Je Sais Tout.
In 1905, he began a collaboration with La Semaine de Suzette that would last until his death, during which time he illustrated about twenty books in the " La Bibliothèque de Suzette " collection. In 1907, he published the humorous album Les Tribulations d'un cancre bleu (published by Delagrave).
Guydo additionally wrote and illustrated children's books.
He was part of the Montmartre artist group in Paris.
Guydo died in 1931, and his personal diaries and memoires were destroyed during a bombing in World War II.
He also signed GO and sometimes Henri Guydo . | |
| Source : | | Wikipedia (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guydo) | |