Gaston Noury
11 albums/79 artworks – Gaston Noury (1866 – 1936) was born in the Norman textile town of Elbeuf, Gaston Noury grew up among Impressionist whispers: his grandfather founded the local museum and welcomed Pissarro, Renoir, Monet, and Degas. From Le Havre’s salt air he carried a lifelong love of light and line. By 1889 he was in Paris, training under Félix-Auguste Clément, designing posters for Les Maîtres de l’Affiche, and dressing Moulin Rouge dancers in scandalous petals of fabric that bared thigh, midriff, and décolletage. He contributed illustrations to numerous periodicals, including La Chronique Parisienne, Saint-Nicolas, Gil Blas illustré, Journal amusant (1889–1890), Sans Gene, and Les Hommes d’aujourd’hui. He painted postcards by the hundred: fairies, mermaids, fashion plates, each a…
