Set of 5 framed engravings signed Lobel Riche.
Alméry Lobel-Riche, from his real name Almeric Joseph Riche, born May 3, 1877 in Geneva of French parents, died on May 11, 1950 in Paris, is a painter, engraver, French illustrator known to the public in particular for his representations of the world of gallantry.
Son of Alméric Louis Riche and Mathilda Demonfaucon, Alméric Riche studied at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier then in Paris from 1895.
He married, for the first time, in Paris, on August 29, 1907, Solange Joséphine Clémentine Paviot (1877-1960) from whom he divorced on July 24, 1936.
He married, for the second time, Neuilly-sur-Seine, December 15, 1936, Odette Marie Marcelle Vandal (1904-1997).
Student of Leon Bonnat,Antoine Calbet and Paul Sain, he exhibited his paintings very early at the Salon des Artistes Français where he received several special encouragements, an honorable mention and the silver medal.
For his first works, he illustrated novels published in brochure form, such as Uncle Scipio byAndré Theuriet (1907)
During theoccupation, when Second World War, Lobel-Riche chose to settle in Meymac, a the Corrèze , where his wife is from1He then resided in the Durand house opposite the church, on the corner of rue Saint-Jean.4. It is also in the Meymac cemetery that he will ask to be buried.
During this forced stay, he mainly practiced painting, his engraving and lithography equipment having remained in his Parisian studio. Because if Lobel-Riche is an excellent painter, he acquired his notoriety through his talent as an engraver, who masters both the techniques ofetching, dry point that of the woodcut.
