Color lithograph, 1897. 330x229 mm; 13x9 inches, full margins. Edition of 2000. Published by L'Estampe Moderne, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt 2790, lower right). A very good impression with strong colors.
Evenepoel (1872-1899) was a Belgian artist whose productive though short career spanned Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Fauvism. He first studied art in Brussels at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts between 1889 and 1890, and entered Paris's Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1892. Evenepoel entered the Paris atelier of Gustave Moreau in 1893, which put him in contact with Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault and Albert Marquet among others. His Parisian scenes were influenced by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean-Louis Forain. Evenepoel died of typhus in Paris at the age of 27.
