Almery Lobel-Riche Biography
Lobel-Riche began his artistic studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpelier and continued them in Paris under the tutelage of Bonnat. Success came quickly to him when the drawings he submitted to the newspaper "Le Rire" were immediately accepted for publication in 1895.

From then he went on to illustrate war scenes and other atrocities, but it was with his sensuous depictions of girls and women that he truly made his mark. No single school or artist's influence can be found in his work, although the images suggest Felicien Rops and Louis Legrand and even hint of Ingres.

Lobel-Riche, besides being a well known painter and print-maker of the belle epoque era was a war artist in the First World War and a prolific illustrator. An early influence was Toulouse-Lautrec, and later Louis Legrand as he shared with them their fascination for the life of café society and the brothels.

By 1931, Lobel-Riche had a body of work comprising more than 200 individual etchings, engravings and lithographs. However, his real output was even greater as he created innumerable illustrations for journals and illustrated books. He often collaborated with the great writers of the period such as Baudelaire, Pierre Louys and Valéry to create true livres d'artiste.

Lobel-Riche loved women. His sensuous, erotic portrayals of women from every class reflect his passion for both art and life.