| General info : | | Henri Louis Avelot (born March 2, 1873 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France - died April 2, 1935 in Paris, France (aged 62)) was a French painter, illustrator, and humorist, contributing to numerous magazines from 1895 until his death.
He also published parody serials and wrote and illustrated for children.
At the beginning of his career, Henri Avelot was an illustrator who earned his living from drawings and watercolors created during his travels. From his first trip, undertaken with Joseph de la Nézière to the Balkans when he was 20, he published a 200-page illustrated account dedicated to Prince Nicholas I of Montenegro. Avelot then carried out a topographical mission in the French Congo in 1899. In 1910-1911, his lifelong passion for travel inspired a series of illustrated articles published in La Vie parisienne.
From 1895, Henri Avelot began a career as a humorous illustrator in the main specialized magazines of the time: La Caricature, Le Pêle-Mêle, Le Rire (1899-1909), and to a lesser extent in Fantasio, Le Sourire, La Baïonnette, Le Journal or Je sais tout (1913).
He joined the Society of Humorous Illustrators in 1904 and exhibited regularly at the Salon des humoristes .
As a painter, he also exhibited at the salons of the Société nationale des beaux arts (from 1901 to 1933), at the Salon des artistes français (from 1906 to 1910) as well as at the exhibitions of the Société coloniale des artistes français .
From 1900 onwards, he deployed his literary talents in delirious parody serials of popular historical novels (L'Homme verdâtre, 1900 and Quousque tandem, 1904), detective novels (La Comtesse tatouée, 1907 and Les Mystères de l'hôtel Fornax) or westerns (Œil de taupe ou La Dernière des Mohicans, 1919).
He also actively contributed to youth magazines such as La Semaine de Suzette in the 1910s and Benjamin in 1929-1930. Children's books, in which he was both the author of the text and the illustrator, were published by various publishers.
Furthermore, Henri Avelot was a collector of dolls and toys, as well as Épinal prints. He was also president of the Republic of Montmartre from 1931 to 1934. | |
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