Maurice Louis Ange Robin (1884 - 1942)

Maurice Louis Ange Robin was a French painter, illustrator, lithographer and art critic, the son of a Parisian wine merchant. He began his career in 1901, publishing illustrations and lithographs in the magazine L'Œuvre d'art internationale. Based in Boulogne-sur-Seine, he exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants between 1903 and 1914.

Robin contributed to magazines such as L'Indiscret, Isis, Les Hommes du jour, and Le Livre et l'Image. In 1907, he published a lithographed collection of views of Paris alongside artists such as Maximilien Luce and Henri Ottmann. He then became involved in the Abbaye de Créteil phalanstery, where he exhibited in 1908. From 1909, he began writing essays on art, as well as catalogues for galleries, focusing on contemporary artists.

From 1917, he wrote the art pages of La Petite République, where his virulent criticism of the avant-garde won him as many admirers as detractors. Despite this reputation, he continued to exhibit drawings and prints in Parisian galleries until the early 1930s.