GOURSAT (GEORGES, SEM, 1863-1934)

GOURSAT (GEORGES, SEM, 1863-1934)

MONTE CARLO, AN ALBUM OF COLOUR LITHOGRAPHS

including caricatures and scenes from L'Hotel de Paris, Ciro's Bar, the Grand Hotel and others, in the original album with a titled print to the front, comprising: twenty single sheets (520 x 360mm approx.), two double sheets and one four-fold sheet titled 'La Marche a la Roulette - Atrium', with 'Ex Libris L. de Rothschild' paper label to the inside of the front cover

Provenance

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Catalogue Note

Georges Goursat, known as Sem, was a French caricaturist famous during the Belle Epoque. 'Monte Carlo' was published c.1902 and it features portraits of well-known men and women of the period, including portraits of John Pierpoint Morgan, Paul Helleu, and Baron Henri de Rothschild.

Copies of 'Monte Carlo' can be found in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.