Biographies

Auguste (Jean) (Baptiste) Roubille (1872 – 1955) We have not been able to find out much about this interesting painter, but we know that he was a contemporary and colleague of and the Nabis and that he contributed to , , and similar publications. A single image of his, a poster for Spratt’s Patent dog biscuits, is all over the web. Anthony Ludovici praised a work of his, Au Touriste, in , as providing “real fun, of the kind that throws all Hassall and the German humorists’ attempts into the shade.” Bonnard La Revue blanche L’Assiette au beurre Cocorico The New Age (NA 13:18:521)