Galerie Paul Prouté

Edouard Saunier, a painter, caricaturist, and advertising artist, began his career in 1903 as an illustrator for magazines such as Le Charivari, L’Assiette au beurre, and Le Tam-Tam. From 1908 to 1914, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants. Gifted with an imagination and a style that were both whimsical and lighthearted, he was very well received by the contemporary art world. As a caricaturist for the Folies Bergères, he also devoted himself to poster art and advertising illustration across a variety of fields—including restaurants, hats, fashion, shoes, eyewear, and tires—under the pseudonym Teddy. Drafted during World War I, he died suddenly of the Spanish flu in 1918.