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1. Le Jeune Homme Symbolique
2. The Drunken Cabby
3. Listening to French Poetry

Le Jeune Homme Symbolique

George Moore half-length, half-turned to his left, looking down and to his right, hands folded at the bottom of the picture. The interior of a room forms the background.

This portrait is contemporary with Blanche’s La Jeune Fille Symbolique, a drawing on the front cover of Confessions of a Young Man (1888, 1889), exhibited at the Musée de Dieppe in 1954, present whereabouts unknown.

Owner: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

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The Drunken Cabby

Inscribed J.E. Blanche to George Moore March 9th 1903 aetatis 49. George Moore was actually 51 in 1903. Half-length, turned slightly to his right. Blanche recorded Edgar Degas’ appreciation of this portrait and his own dismay when Moore said it made him look like a “drunken cabby.”

Published with Edouard Dujardin, “Quand George Moore vient à Paris…” (Les Nouvelles Littéraires, 18 November 1922, page 1). Exhibited in the Leicester Gallery, London, May-June 1939.

Owner: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. International Painting, Gift of Mrs. Percy Grainger, 1963

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Listening to French Poetry

Inscribed: Mr G. Moore as listening to French poetry (very extreme) Post-impressionists Grafton Gallery. Nov 12th 1912. Head turned to his right and facing away. The biographer Joseph Hone’s name and address inscribed in the upper left. On verso, the letterhead of Hugo Reisinger, 13 Broadway, New York.

Owner: Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA.