Sylvain Sauvage (1888 - 1948)

Sylvain Sauvage

Sylvain Sauvage, born Félix Roy, was a French Impressionist and Modernist painter, illustrator, designer and printmaker.

He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Paris, and after the First World War he took up illustration thanks to the publisher Kieffer, who in 1922 commissioned him to illustrate Voltaire's Ingenue. Sylvain Sauvage subsequently collaborated with Mornay, Jonquière and Crès. In 1925 Sauvage became an independent publisher and was also known as a fine illustrator and technical book specialist. His work was exhibited at the Salon des Artistes-Decorators and he was director of the Ecole dEstienne. Sylvain Sauvage illustrated many books during his career.