TOUCHAGUES Louis

Louis TOUCHAGUES arrived in Paris in 1923 to practice his profession as a cartoonist and illustrator in several illustrated newspapers (L'Art vivant, Paris-Journal, Les Nouvelles littéraires) and satiriques (Le Crapouillot, Le Charivari). He will also be a parliamentary draftsman, delegated by the Fine Arts as a draftsman at the first Peace Conference and at the arrival of General de Gaulle in Paris. He illustrated many books by Colette, Sacha Guitry, Marcel Achard, Marcel Aymé, Georges Duhamel, Joseph Delteil (Jeanne d'Arc), and became known through three albums (Women and models, La Parisienne et Vagues à St-Tropez) as the cartoonist of the woman. As a painter, he will exhibit alongside Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Ossip Zadkine, and Marie Laurencin. His taste for decoration will lead him to create theatre sets and costumes for his Lyon friends Henri Béraud and Marcel Achard, but also porcelain decorations for Camille Le Tallec. He worked for Charles Dullin at the Atelier and Louis Jouvet at the Comédie-Française. Touchagues will also be an organiser of great evenings. His works will result from numerous murals and frescoes for private individuals: frescoes of the Chapel of the Ermitage du Mont Cindre in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon, mobile ceiling at Lasserre, painted glasses for the glass windows of the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris. It also decorates the smoker bar of the Comédie-Française. He also took Chag and Chagues as pseudonyms. He was an actor in Paris I love Guy Perol. An association, founded in 1993, "to give back to the work of the painter Louis Touchagues, (his) deserved place in the artistic heritage of France", implemented the restoration of the fresco of the porch of the chapel of the Hermitage in 1998, then of the one above the altar in 2002. (extract from Wikipedia, online encyclopedia)