BOUCHÉ René (Illustrator)

Working in pen and ink, Bouché was a master at blending fashion and society. Two figures are silhouetted against a sophisticated background like a tableau vivant. They are linked by their fur muffs. With his vivacious and witty line, Bouché has revealed these fashionable women and their elegant clothes and has expressed their elegant clothes and has expressed their character, their manner and a sense of occasion. It is a throwaway style but the informal virtuosity of Bouché as a fashion illustrator was combined with a skillful training in painting, drawing and portraiture. Bouché illustrated the pages of Vogue during the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, and had a particular flair for communicating the relationship between clothes and wearers with accuracy and humour. The prestige of Vogue was due in large measure to the revival of fashion illustration by artists of the calibre of Benito, Eric, Christian Bérard, René Gruau and René Bouché.

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