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Georges Goursat (Sem)
Georges Goursat (Sem)

Georges Goursat (Sem)

French, 1863–1934
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Georges Goursat, known as Sem, was a French caricaturist famous during the Belle Époque.

Georges Goursat was born and raised in an upper-middle-class family from Périgueux. The wealth inherited from his father at the age of 21 allowed him to sustain a gilded youth.

In 1888 he self published in Périgueux his first three albums of caricatures, signing some as "SEM" (Figure, left), allegedly as a tribute to Amédée de Noé who signed his caricatures for Le Monde illustré as "Cham".

From 1890 to 1898, he settled for a few years in Bordeaux. During this period, he published more albums and his first press caricatures in La Petite Gironde and discovered the work of Leonetto Cappiello. His style matured, becoming both simpler and more precise.

During the same period, he made trips to Paris. In 1891, he designed two posters printed in the workshop of Jules Chéret (Figure, right) for the singer Paulus [fr]. He published his first caricatures of artists in L'Illustration (Albert Brasseur) and Le Rire (Paulus, Polin and Yvette Guilbert).

From 1898 to 1900, he lived in Marseille. During this stay, he met Jean Lorrain who convinced him to live in Paris.

Goursat arrived in Paris in March 1900, at the time of the opening of the Universal Exposition.

He picked horse races as his way of entry in high society. In June, three months after his arrival, he self-published a new album, Le Turf, with caricatures of many prominent Parisian socialites (Marquess Boni de Castellane, Prince Trubetskoy, Count Clermont-Tonnerre, Baron Alphonse and Gustave de Rothschild, Polaire). The success of this album made him famous overnight. In October of the same year, he published another album, Paris-Trouville, with the same success. Nine others followed until 1913.

In 1904, Goursat received the Légion d'honneur. In 1909, he exhibited with the painter Auguste Roubille, first in Paris, then in Monte Carlo and London. a diorama, composed of hundreds of wooden figurines "of all the merely Paris celebrities".

Aged over 50 at the start of World War I, Goursat was not drafted. He nevertheless involved himself as a war correspondent for Le Journal. Some of his rather "chauvinistic" articles had an "enormous impact". Ten were published in 1917 in Un pékin sur le front. Two others were incorporated in 1923 in another book, La Ronde de Nuit. In 1916 and 1918 Goursat published two albums of Croquis de Guerre (War sketches). Their style is completely different from his previous work. He also designed posters for war bonds.

After the war, Goursat came back to the kind of caricatures that made him famous. In 1919, he published Le Grand Monde à l'envers (High Society upside down). Around 1923, he published 3 albums under the general title of Le Nouveau Monde (The New World). In 1923, he was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur. In 1929, he was severely impoverished by the economic crisis. After a heart attack in 1933, he died in 1934.

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cagnotte des hommes

cagnotte des hommes (1912)

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Caltez, v’là la rousse!

Caltez, v’là la rousse! (1919)

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Campement de spahis

Campement de spahis (1915-1916)

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Campement et croquis de soldats

Campement et croquis de soldats (1915-1916)

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Cappiello et le duc de Morny

Cappiello et le duc de Morny (1901)

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C’est aujourd’hui ma fête !

C’est aujourd’hui ma fête ! (1923)

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C’est le tango ; comte Louis de l’Aigle, M Martell, Lysis Denaint

C’est le tango ; comte Louis de l’Aigle, M Martell, Lysis Denaint (1913)

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C’est un canon ! ; Portraits express

C’est un canon ! ; Portraits express (1919)

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Champagne

Champagne (1915-1916)

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Chappy my dear…le dollar monte. Mais est-ce que la lire baisse

Chappy my dear…le dollar monte. Mais est-ce que la lire baisse (1923)

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Charleston, Get out !

Charleston, Get out ! (1927)

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Chéri Albronn, et deux femmes

Chéri Albronn, et deux femmes (1913)

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Chéri Halbronn, Mme d’Artex, Mme Brighton

Chéri Halbronn, Mme d’Artex, Mme Brighton (1912)

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Chez EDOUARD & BUTLER

Chez EDOUARD & BUTLER (1927)

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Chez le commissaire Léfès

Chez le commissaire Léfès (1924)

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Chez ma tante

Chez ma tante (1919)

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Chez Voisin

Chez Voisin (1904)

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Cinq coquettes sur la pelouse

Cinq coquettes sur la pelouse (1901)

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Cinq études de deux personnages dont Maurice de Rotschild en militaire

Cinq études de deux personnages dont Maurice de Rotschild en militaire (1919)

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cinq hommes non identifiés dont Santos Dumont, Sol Joel et Boldini

cinq hommes non identifiés dont Santos Dumont, Sol Joel et Boldini (1913)

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cinq personnages dont Letellier

cinq personnages dont Letellier (1913)

Georges Goursat (Sem) (French, 1863–1934)
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cinq personnages dont M Fischoff et M Kahn

cinq personnages dont M Fischoff et M Kahn (1913)

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cinq poissons, personnages non identifiés

cinq poissons, personnages non identifiés (1913)

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Ciro’s bar

Ciro’s bar (1913)

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Coco ; Gabrielle Chanel, Arthur Capel

Coco ; Gabrielle Chanel, Arthur Capel (1913)

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Colonel Voyer, Maître Héraud et Porchère

Colonel Voyer, Maître Héraud et Porchère (1918)

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Comme au grand siècle ; Comte Bruno de Boisgelin, , Paul Aumont, Marquis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron

Comme au grand siècle ; Comte Bruno de Boisgelin, , Paul Aumont, Marquis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron (1913)

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Comme tu devais être mignon sous l’Empire ; Forain, Louise Abbéma, A Rodin

Comme tu devais être mignon sous l’Empire ; Forain, Louise Abbéma, A Rodin (1913)

Georges Goursat (Sem) (French, 1863–1934)
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Comte Boni de Castellane

Comte Boni de Castellane (1900)

Georges Goursat (Sem) (French, 1863–1934)
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Comte Charles de la Rochefoucauld, Marcel Fouquier, Pierre Wolf et Ernest La Jeunesse

Comte Charles de la Rochefoucauld, Marcel Fouquier, Pierre Wolf et Ernest La Jeunesse (1904)

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