Lucien Hector Jonas Original WW1 Hand Signed & Numbered 14.5 X 11" Period Litho.

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I am selling a fantastic 50 year collection of World War 1 items. These items are special to me because they came from one of my mentors. This gentleman is a fanatic collector who only purchased the best of the best. Do not miss this once in a lifetime chance to own a true piece of American history. We have done our best to correctly describe each item, if we made any mistakes or you have more information  on the item, please let us know so we can give true praise to these great men & women who served and protected all of the United States.
Up for your consideration we have an Original WW1 Period, Very Rare and Hand numbered and hand signed, Black and White litho from The Famous Artist Lucien Hector Jonas. Size of Litho is approx. (not including matting). 14.5 X 11 inch. Signed and Numbered on the bottom right hand corner. Information on litho hand
written
on the back of litho by artist. I purchased a collection of 6 of these lithos from this collection. Lithos protected by a plastic wrap so there may be some glare in the photos. Please see my other listings to see more from this collection.  I am starting these low so they find a good home. Thank you for bidding.
The following information was found on the site Roads to the Great War, and Waterhouse and Dodd, My thanks to them for the wonderful write up on this gifted artist.
LUCIEN JONAS
French 1880 - 1947
Lucien Jonas was born in the town of Anzin in northern France. He first studied in Valenciennes with the painter Layraud, then in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts under Albert Maignan, Léon Bonnat and Henri Harpignies. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and was elected to its membership in 1904. He won a number of awards and prizes, including a silver medal and the second Prix de Rome in 1905, a gold medal and a traveling fellowship in 1907. In 1911 he won the Prix National at the Paris Salon. He won a medal for his printmaking in 1935 and was elected to the Salon jury for both painting and engraving in 1945. He was made a Knight of the Legion d’honneur in 1929.
Jonas came to prominence during the First World War as one of the greatest and most prolific of war artists. He was mobilized at the end of 1914 and in February of 1915 was attached to the Musée de l’Armée in Paris as an official military painter. As such, he often traveled to the front lines making paintings and drawings that were later published in newspapers, magazines, and books throughout the world. Many of his drawings and paintings of the war were published in the weekly Parisian newspaper, Illustration, perhaps the most widely read newspaper in France. He also became known for his striking portraits of officers and soldiers, and after the war he illustrated a three-volume history of the Great War titled The War as Told by Our Generals. He was a skilled mural painter and his works adorned a number of buildings in Paris and elsewhere.
A retrospective of Jonas’s work was held in Paris in 1992. In 2003 the exhibition Lucien Jonas and Mural Painting in Paris in the 1930s was held at the Musée Carnavalet. His work can be found in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée de l’Armée and the Musée du Petit Palais.
Lucien produced drawings, oil paintings, charcoals, sketches, and illustrations of all kinds. Perhaps of all wartime artists in France, Jonas was the most successful and well known. In any case, his production of artworks of all kinds — paintings, sketches, drawings, woodcuts, and such — was prolific in the extreme. His work was published in virtually all of the French and Allied media as well in those of the Central Powers, though these last countries no doubt censored some of his more patriotic  , above all things, Jonas was a French patriot to the bone, full of pathos and a strong desire for revenge against the hated Teutonic invader and intertwined with a religiosity that was unusual for French artwork of that period. He also made great use of allegory in his work, some of his illustrations looking more like preparatory sketches for public statues. He was the creator of many series of illustrations that can often rightfully be described as Jonas was one of the more prolific Great War illustrators. A gifted and talented artist, he was mobilized in December 1914 and in February 1915 was officially accredited as "military painter seconded to the Musée de l'Armée" in Paris. During the war he traveled extensively along all sections of the front lines and produced propaganda for the French cause. His German officers look hateful and ungainly or arrogant, often sporting a monocle and mustache as well as showing an unholy delight in the wrongful suffering and depredations on the civilian population. These works were very influential in creating mental imagery of the Boche enemy, in inspiring patriotism out of outrage and a burning desire for revenge. But, in seeming contrast, Jonas was a vivid illustrator and portraitist of the common soldier of all Allied nations and of great generals and war leaders as well.
. You don't get much rarer or cooler than this Artistic Work.The above information was found on the web.
Please review all photos. Ref # MIL-276 BonF
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