Riche, Almeric

(5/3/1880 Geneva-5/11/1950 Paris) (France); aka pseudonym Lobel-Riche, Almery

   Illustrator, etcher, painter. Known as a belle epoque artist, a war artist in World War I, and a prolific illustrator. Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpelier and in Paris. Early in his career he provided drawings to the paper "Le Rire." By the early 1930s he was quite successful, collaborating with major writers. Like Toulouse-Lautrec and Louis Legrand, he was fascinated by the wild side of life, brothels, and prostitutes.

   Reproductions: [Couple kissing while woman strokes man's penis]; 1936; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 259 . [Cunnilin- gus scene]; 1936; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 257 [C]. [Fellatio scene]; 1936; Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 258 [C]; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 54 [C] / Thomas, 2008: fig. 470 [C]. [Lovers by the side of a path]; 1936; p. 184 [C]. [Nude women fellating partially and fully clothed males]; 1936; Kearney, 1982: p. 7 / Erotic drawings, 2004: p. 195 [C]. [Rear entry sex scene]; 1936: Encyclopaedia, 2005: p. 256 [C]; Dopp, Erotic Fantasy: p. 55 [C].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 8: p. 1152; Vollmer III 1956: p. 248.