Lot 75: Theo Van Elsen Graphite Male Nude 1896 - 1961 / Male Academia Estate Stamp

Theodore Van Elsen (1896 - 1961) was active/lived in France, Indonesia. Theodore Elsen is known for Caricatures, low-life female portrait painting, cartoons. Theo Van Elsen (1896-1961) Turning Boy Without Alice Prin’s (Kiki de Montparnasse) 1929 memoir, the colorful life of Theodor Van Elsen may have been lost forever, but in her capture of 1920's Paris, she singles him out as a memorable character. She writes: Among the thousand and one picture galleries in Paris there is none more singular than that of Theo Van Elsen, the Dutch-Javanese artist known for his caricatures in Le Rire and Candide. He is also known as the Hermit of the Dives. The walls of his tiny studio, which is situated next to the Deux Magots Café in the heart of the Latin Quarter are covered with paintings he has made of outcast women encountered in the lowest haunts of vice and crime. Van Elsen, who is 31 years old, dresses like an Apache, paints best when intoxicated, and is a confirmed night hawk, leaving his room each evening at 10 o’clock to prowl about unfrequented side streets in search of subjects for his work ... Graphite on Paper a Male Nude Academia .... Estate stamped ... We offer inhouse packing and shipping on all items ...