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Joaquin Sunyer, artist
Spanish, 1875 -
Portfolio of 8 lithographs to illustrate "Les Soliloques du Pauvre" by Jean Rictus, 1897
Color lithographs
31.5 x 23.2 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.11916

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Artist Biography: Born December, 1875 at Vilenova y Gestru, in his eighteenth year went to Paris and lived on Montmartre until 1911 when he returned to Barcelona. Painter, patellist and etcher as well as lithographer, he knew Steinlen and Willette, was befriended with Picasso and influenced Picasso's "Blue Period." Lived in Sitges near Barcelona. See: L. Delteil, Manuel, p. 480; Edouard Joseph, Dictionnaire biographique des Artistes contemporains, Paris, Librarie Grund, 1934; BËnËzit.