Andre Mare
American Troops Marching Through the Arc de Triomphe
Oil on canvas
39 1/2" x 32" (100 x 81.3 cm)
Estimate:  $15000/25000

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During World War I there were many French artists who, according to Jere
L. Jackson, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches,
Texas,were mobilized or who volunteered for active service with the
French military. Many of these artists were killed in the conflict;
their names appeared regularly in the memorial lists of leading art
journals. Some of the artist-combatants made their way into the famous
Camouflage Corps, where the army eventually put them to documenting the
course of the war in art. Men like Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Andre
Fraye, Luc-Albert Moreau, Fernand Leger, Raoul Dufy, Andre Mare, and
Andre Lhote were in the Camouflage Corps and produced many fine works of
art related to the war. The current large canvas, almost certainly a
World War I image—the doughboys wearing helmets of the period, among
other details—is dated 1930. The current image is most likely a work up
from an earlier study or done from memory.

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