"The Snake Charmer" Lot no. 2520
By Rene Bull 1872 - 1942
12.50" x 8.75"
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
Signed Lower Left
SOLD
Pictorial Arts Journal Cover
publications:
JVJ Publishing, Jim Vadeboncoeur; The Vadeboncoeur Collection of Images, Palo Alto, CA. Issue#13, Fall 2014
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
René Bull, cartoonist, war artist and illustrator, was born in Dublin in 1872 . He studied engineering in Paris, and was offered a job in the building of the Suez Canal, but turned it down, instead taking drawing lessons from Caran D’Ache. Born in Ireland, he studied engineering in Paris where he met the illustrator Caran d'Ache. Upon returning to London, he decided to study art to become an illustrator with the goal to work on commissions by magazines as war artists or to provide general pictorial studies of other countries.
Bull received an appointment for Black & White magazine and witnessed the Armenian massacres, the war in Greece, visited the North West frontier of India and covered the Omdurman campaigns in the Sudan. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a lieutenant, before being assigned to the Royal Naval Air Service in 1916. He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1917, and transferred to the RAF in 1918, where he reached the rank of Major. He joined the Air Ministry for technical duties in 1940, and died on 13 April 1942.