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I have a few painting that have a stamp on the back "Artistic Interiors, Inc. With certified original oil and numbers on them. How can I find out what they are valued at? - becky: 7/16/2008 9:14:22 AM
I have 2 pieces of art myself. Mine are originals that appear to be etching and watercolor. They are named PARIS MONTMARTRE,CABARET JU LAPIN AGILE, #10 and #9. I've had a difficult time finding information as well. I do have a bit of information. His full name is "Joris Johannes Christiaan (Chris)Lebeau". You can find information under searching the various name combinations, including "J.J. Christian Lebeau". You can also find various free or shareware text translation programs to translate Dutch. I do have this information: "LEBEAU, Joris Johannes Christiaan(clamour name: Chris), anarchistic artist, born in Amsterdam on 26 May 1878 and on 30 April 1945 in Dachau to typhus have died. He was the zoon of Jacques Charles Lebeau, among others machine man and tradesman, and Grietje Scholte. On 7 May 1902 he got married with Anna M. Leverington, with which he got for the. This marriage was dissolved on 27 February 1919. Lebeau left its woman on 22 June 1915 then he will cohabit with Nella Augusta Heijting, widow of Abraham of of the dirtily. These had already for the and a zoon from that marriage. He finished this free marriage a free marriage with Maria Sofia Herman in March 1925. on 7 May 1932 contracted. On he married 12 November 1935 in London with Ilse Ruth Voigt. This marriage was dissolved by separation on 14 January 1937.Lebeau became in a from Amsterdam cellar house born as a fourth and last child in a working-class family. Father Lebeau was a convinced Socialist, who announced the birth of its zoon as follows in the Werkmansbode: ' we ondergeteekenden indicate by these with suffering being, which us Broeder are born under pine name of JORIS JOHANNES CHRISTIAAN, further regret we the all birth of that child drove, that we by our parents obliges will become each one part of our feeding, kleeding and cover must missing ', followed by versje of equal scope. Lebeau accompanied its father at the colportage with right for all. Regularly at the Lebeaus the squares were thrown in, also father had change Lebeau because of its conviction often of profession. Although the mother sews with something there supplemented the family igncome lived the family frequently in bitter poverty, drank the too more father there. Lebeau themselves would be be life long geheelonthouder, vegetarian and non-smoker, also he used no coffee and tea.Construction for signs showed he already complete young. He passed through, stimulated by its teacher and others and successfully art from Amsterdam in spite of extremely precarious material circumstances nijverheid sign school ' Quellinus ' (1892-1895) and vervolgens the realm school for art (1895-1899). Afterwards he followed sign lessons to theosofische the V�hanaschool, which had been set up by among others J.L.M. Lauweriks and drivel K.P.C.. These two, members of Theosofische the association, influenced Lebeau in mentally and artistic area thoroughly and permanent. If artist remained Lebeau the Jugendstil or Art Nouveau always faithful, firstly in art-industrious-driven, later in a large mixture of art forms, where he was always fascinated and be absorbedded in techniques new for him. This way empty he itself initially, with its first woman, on batiking, which was in Europe nearly unknown. He introduced it in 1900, on the world at tone interview in Paris. After batiking work with dam kiln followed, he made graphic designs and free graph, theatre settings, layouts, red ochre - and pen drawings, paintings, glass work, glas-in-lood, partition peeling ring, houtsneden, sculpturen and theaterinterieurs and - exterieurs. He was with that of the multiest-purpose and most productive artists of its time. Applied work has been included among others tafellinnen, book link designs and book decorations, posters, spotprenten, postage stamps, ex-librissen (including for the anarchist B. and for the hoogleraren E.M. Meyers and R.P. lie Cleveringa), calendars, standards, catalogues and diplomas. Its free work exists from landscapes, stillevens, nudes and portraits. Especially in its oil painting portraits from the years thirty (for example of its friend and spirit relative, the anarchist Albert the young) he left the Jugendstil separately and reached a pure realism. Lebeau worked with much success as a teacher for an evening profession school in the Jordan and from 1904 up to 1914 for the school for art in Haarlem. At teaching he found the character shaping as exactly important as the artistic development. He took dismissal to be able itself dedicate entirely to own artistic work, but continued to individual students teach. In 1908, he worked a time in Antwerp and in 1914, he stayed a six-month period in Indonesia with the toneelgezelschap of E. Verkade, for which he made for three years settings. After this travel he established himself in The Hague. At a fire in the caravan in which he worked went much work lost. Between 1926 and 1929 Lebeau some keren stayed in bohemen for manufacturing glass work, also he worked in Belgium and France. The work of Lebeau is goeddeels decorative. Of its..." It did not translate to complete english, and it trial versions will only allow you to translate a small amount at one time. If you want to further translate, you can find the full biography at http://www.iisg.nl/bwsa/bios/lebeau.html I also found this... "Lebeau, (Joris Johannes) Chris [Christiaan] (b Amsterdam, 26 May 1878; d Dachau, 2 April 1945). Dutch painter, designer and applied artist. He trained in design and decorative painting at the Quellinus school and the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid (National School of the Applied Arts) in Amsterdam from 1892 to 1899. He was assigned to assist with the decoration of the Dutch pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. A number of his designs for the pavilion were executed in batik, a Javanese technique that had been recently introduced in the Netherlands. In subsequent years Lebeau developed a very personal approach to batiking and within a short time became the leading Dutch artist in this field. His batiked screens in particular were widely acclaimed (examples in Assen, Prov. Mus. Drenthe) and are considered masterpieces of Dutch Jugendstil. There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art. To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to www.groveart.com. To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and subscribe to www.groveart.com � Lebeau, (Joris Johannes) Chris o Linen diaper and damask, �2: Patterns o Netherlands, the, �XI, 3: Woven and printed textiles" I would be interested to know what your prints look like to see if they are similar to mine. I could send you pictures of mine as well. If you find out any info I would greatly appreciate that you pass it on, and I will do the same. My direct e-mail address is cdriscoll17@cox.net. Thanks! Cheryl - cdriscoll: 10/26/2003 6:00:46 AM