1900-1945
Roland Caillaux 'Portrait of a Man'
Roland Caillaux 'Portrait of a Man'
£1,250.00
Roland Caillaux French, 1905-1977
Portrait of a Man
£1,250
Charcoal, chalk and red chalk
Signed (lower right) and titled (upper right)
12cm × 9.5cm (41cm × 37cm framed)
A French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century. Caillaux has long been best known for illustrating 20 lithographies pour un livre que j'ai lu (20 lithographs for a book I read), which accompanied a text attributed to Jean Genet with images of male homosexuality, including explicit sexual activity.