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Title: L'Innocent

Year: 1899

Description: Alfred Dreyfus on trial in Rennes. Despite procedural improprieties and a confession of forged documentation, Dreyfus is convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Hermann-Paul makes his feelings known. Dreyfus is innocent.

Publisher: Le Figaro, September 1899

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Le Captain Alfred Dreyfus

Title: Le Captain Alfred Dreyfus

Year: 1899

Description: If Dreyfus was the embodiment of conservative evil, he was a hero to avant garde. There was little doubt on which side the artist stood.

Publisher: La Semaine littéraire, 1899

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Barbarie. Civilisation.

Title: Barbarie. Civilisation.

Year: 1899

Description: It's all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of "Barbarity!" But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it's a necessary blow for civilization.

Publisher: Le Cri de Paris, 10 July 1899

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Elégante au manteau rose

Title: Elégante au manteau rose

Year: 1899

Description: A portrait of a lady in an elegant pink coat. This work was done in Gouache on paper.

Publisher: L'Estampe Originale circa 1899

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Les Barrison

Title: Les Barrison

Year: 1900

Description: Color lithograph poster of the Barrison sisters. The quintet performed at Les Folies Bergere. Their signature song was Do You Want To See My Pussy? A promotional photograph featured the Sisters each with a live kitten under their dress. Very rare: only three copies are known to exist.

Publisher: L'Estampe Originale

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The Augstinians

Title: The Augstinians

Year: 1901

Description: In the village after the discovery of great wealth in the hands of the local Augustinians, peasents continue to toil in poverty.

Publisher: Le Figaro

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The New Car

Title: The New Car

Year: 1909

Description: Watercolor, pen and ink. The date is based on the auto which strongly resembles a 1909 Delaunay-Belleville touring car.

Publisher: Commercial gallery, circa 1909

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Conseils - Pendant la guerre

Title: Conseils - Pendant la guerre

Year: 1915

Description: A Frenchman tips a Boche and a village smolders in the background. One must be alert in war and keep an watchful eye for traitors.

Publisher: Dorbonainé

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Le Faux Berger (The False Shepard)

Title: Le Faux Berger (The False Shepard)

Year: 1915

Description: Another treachery. This time it is perpetrated by a spy in shepard's clothing...

Publisher: La Baïonnette, Issue #7 Issue #7 Leurs Espions, 19 August 1915

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Chez Les Turcs

Title: Chez Les Turcs

Year: 1915

Description: In the Turkish homeland and looking at a dead Prussian Soldier. One Turk says to the other, "How well the Allies Shoot!"

Publisher: La Baïonnette, Issue #2 Têtes de Turcs, 15 July 1915

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