The Carriers of the Amphorae

The Carriers of Amphorae is an original modern artwork realized by  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952) in 1922 .

Original Lithograph on ivory paper.

Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. Bac 1922. 

Very good conditions. 

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The Carriers of Amphorae   is   an very beautiful Liberty Style lithograph realized by the French artist  Ferdinand Bac in the Second decade of the XX Century.  The work depicts   some women carrying amphorae on their heads. Some of them cover up with their clothes and turn to a man. In the background we see a seascape with buildings and columns.

This work has been realized the French artist  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener.  He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more   other famous people of the time.   He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida, Job, Sem, Jean-Louis Forain or Caran d'Ache. Ferdinand alternated between Colombières and a beautiful mansion in Compiègne that also belonged to the Ladan-Bockairys. There he met Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Anna de Noailles. Until the end of his life, Ferdinand Bac continued to travel, write and draw, reflecting on the political and historical development of the world.