Paul Reboux, oil/ board, Peche Involontaire, c1940

Paul Reboux, oil/ board, Peche Involontaire, c1940
This painting measures 17.5 inches x 12.5 inches
The total dimensions including the frame are 20.5 inches x 15.5 inches

Paul Reboux, born Andre Amillet (21 May 1877 to 14 February 1963), was a French writer, humorist, literary critic and painter. He was the son of the journalist Charles Ernest Amillet (1829 to 1884) and the milliner Caroline Reboux. He later took his mothers maiden name with "Paul" as a pen name, and is usually known as Paul Reboux.
A painter as well as prolific writer, his literary career was diverse, as editor, literary critic, food critic, novelist, and author of natural history books, biographies, travel stories and childrens books.
Rebouxs first publications were pastiches with his friend Charles Muller. Together they published three series of À la maniere de (In the manner of) (1908, 1910 and 1913). Muller died in 1914, and Reboux published a fourth collection in 1925 and a fifth in 1950 on his own, in which his pastiches of Jean Paul Sartre neighbor with those of Jean Giono, Boris Vian and Henry de Montherlant. These collections gently mock the literary tics of writers such as Octave Mirbeau, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, Stephane Mallarme, Gyp, Alphonse Daudet, Jose Maria de Heredia, Jules Renard, Jean Jaures, Charles Peguy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anna de Noailles, and others. They have been reissued until today (the last edition dates from 2003), but some authors considered very obscure today have been eliminated from these reissues. (Wikipedia)
Condition Report: Good condition overall