Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce (1858–1941) was a French artist whose career spanned Impressionism, Pointillism, and a return to Impressionistic styles. Born into a working-class family in Montparnasse, Paris, Luce began his artistic journey at 14 as an apprentice wood-engraver. This early training in graphic arts, producing illustrations for publications like *L'Illustration* and *The Graphic*, laid a foundation for his later printmaking, as seen in works like *Paul Signac* (n.d.) and *Her…