Portfolio Cover for Le Café-Concert
Medium
Bi-fold portfolio cover with lithograph image and red letterpress text, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 39 × 28 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 33 cm (17 1/2 × 13 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
89517
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...