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Art Nouveau - Boileau Postcards (100) [185521]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Postcards Start Price:80.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Art Nouveau - Boileau Postcards (100) [185521]
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About 100 Art Nouveau postcards by Philip Boileau. "Philip Boileau was born in Canada in 1864. In 1897, Philip Boileau emigrated to Baltimore, MD, and found success in painting formal portraits of the cityís high society. In 1900 he moved to Philadelphia, where he met his greatest inspiration, Emily Gilbert. During this time his artworks found greater recognition and were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Two years later he moved to New York, the center of the expanding art market, and in 1903 he created his first commercially successful illustration, ìPeggy,î a head-and-shoulders portrait Emily Gilbert. These beautiful portraits of Emily became his first commercial success, and in 1907, the two married amid Boileauís flourishing career. In 1915, he placed second in Pictorial Review Magazineís ìArtist of the Yearî contest. In 1917, just fourteen years after painting ìPeggyî, Boileau contracted pneumonia and died at his home on Long Island, Douglas Manor at just 53. Had he lived longer his total artistic output would have been significantly larger and he would most likely have become as famous as Charles Dana Gibson or Harrison Fisher." from americanillustration.org [] [] [Europe] [] []