Fifth Performance: Mirages, for Le Théatre Libre
Henri-Gabriel Ibels
1892–93
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 22.7 × 30.1 cm (8 15/16 × 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 23.7 × 31.3 cm (9 3/8 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136963
About the Artist
Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936) was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter, and author born in Paris to parents of Dutch ancestry. His early life remains sparsely documented, but he trained at the Académie Julian alongside fellow students Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, where Paul Sérusier mentored him into the nascent Nabis group. In 1889, Ibels became a founding member of Les Nabis along...