4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY CARLO. Charles Antoine ODIS (1877-193 - Lot 263

4 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY CARLO. Charles Antoine ODIS (1877-1936) aka Carlo, aka Charléno. Les Étranges commanditaires du Pensionnat des tortures, circa 1930. 4 drawings in watercolor, ink, graphite and colored pencil, 32.5 x 25 cm per sheet. In issue no. 5 of the magazine Le Visage vert, published in 1998 by Joëlle Losfeld, François Ducos reveals: "Carlo, whose real name was Charles Antoine Odis, was born on September 7, 1877 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. He was the son of a tailor and a seamstress. In fact, the Seine military recruitment archives tell us that Charles Odis was born in Paris on September 7, 1877, at 26 rue Lepic, in the 18th arrondissement, that he worked as a draughtsman, that he was blond, blue-eyed and 1.62 m tall. The 1926 census shows him living on rue Caulaincourt with his wife Maria. The Yvelines archives report his death on May 15, 1936 in Gambais, in his 59th year. His death is also mentioned in the obituary published in Le Sans-Gêne, on January 30, 1937: "As we go to press, we learn with sadness of the death of our collaborator and friend Charléno, whose readers appreciated the witty drawings in our magazine Sans-Gêne. He died at the age of thirty-six, in the prime of his youth, of the consequences of a double pulmonary congestion. Born in 1877, Charles Odis did not die young. However, when the niece of one of Carlo's mistresses handed over an important set of drawings, she couldn't imagine her aunt, an emancipated young girl of the thirties, living as a couple with a gentleman born in the middle of the second half of the nineteenth century. Carlo is still a mystery...