Sem (artist)

[10] During this period, he published more albums and his first press caricatures in La Petite Gironde[11] and discovered the work of Leonetto Cappiello.

[12] He published his first caricatures of artists in L'Illustration (Albert Brasseur) and Le Rire (Paulus, Polin and Yvette Guilbert[i.

[15] Goursat arrived in Paris in March 1900 at the time of the Universal Exposition opening.

[16] In June 1900 he self-published his new album Le Turf of caricatures of many prominent Parisian socialites, including Marquess Boni de Castellane, Prince Trubetskoy, Count Clermont-Tonnerre, Baron Alphonse, Gustave de Rothschild, and Polaire.

The exhibit included a diorama composed of hundreds of wooden figurines "of all the merely Paris celebrities".

[23] In 1916 and 1918 Goursat published two albums of Croquis de Guerre (War Sketches) with a completely different style than his previous work.

In 1919, he published Le Grand Monde à l'envers (High Society Upside Down).

Caricature of various individuals playing roulette by Sem, 1920
Caricature women on a boat being sailed by a sailor by Sem, 1925