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Two Manhattan art galleries held memorial exhibitions last week for a man who died in Paris five months ago in his 80th year: Jean-Louis Forain, biting satirist, master of etching and lithography, one of the greatest ecclesiastical artists since Rembrandt, one of the last giants of the 19th Century (TIME, July 20).
His father was a house painter, but young Jean-Louis refused to paint houses, refused to go to school. He played hooky to copy old masters in the Louvre. Degas took him up. After the Franco-German War Forain's cartoons suddenly caught on. From then until his death he was...
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