Snake Tail

Snake Tail is an original artwork realized between the XIX - XX century  by   Henry Somm.

Original black and white pen drawings on paper.

The artwork represents an ironic scene where the protagonist is a woman with a coat and a snake tail.

Good condition except for some foxings and stains.

The drawing is hand-signed with the initials of the artist on the lower right corner. 

Henry Somm  (Rouen 1844 – Parigi 1907).
François Clément Sommier, best known under the pseudonym “Henry Somm,” was born in Rouen in 1844. He attended the local École municipale des beaux-arts and went on in 1867 to Paris, where he studied under Isidore Pils (1813-1875).He moved to Paris in 1860. Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house. In 1879 and 1889 he participated in the Impressionist exhibitions from the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris.
He collaborated with the newspapers: Le Chat noir, La Charge, La Cravache, La Chronique parisienne, High Life, Frou-Frou, Le Rire. He wrote the comedy in one act La Berline de l'Emigré ou Jamais trop tard pour bien faire, created for Le Chat noir, on December 25, 1885.
Somm left a large number of drawings and watercolors of Paris made in plein air.

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