Andre Favory was French painter and illustrator.Student at the Academie Julian , and strongly influenced by Cézanne , painted in a style Favory Cubist during the first years of his career.

In 1914, he left for war. When setting out again in 1919, the trenches experience profoundly changed his conception of art. It then moves away from the Cubist movement, he considers too intellectual, to approach more carnal aspects of nature and life.

He made ​​frequent trips to Belgium to study the work of Rubens , who shall thereupon have a decisive influence on him.

Become a master of color, Favory now painted in warm colors of landscapes, nudes and portraits of voluptuous women are very sensual. He exhibits regularly in large rooms ( Salon d'Automne in 1921-1923, the Salon des Tuileries in 1923-1924, etc..). During the 1920s , the works of Favory are exhibited in many galleries in Paris and Brussels , and London , Amsterdam , New York and Tokyo . To critics as influential as Vauxcelles Louis , is a major artist of his generation.

He is also active as an illustrator for such publications as The Poems of sad humor of Jules Supervielle ( 1919 ), a reissue of Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert ( 1924 ), opened the night of Paul Morand ( 1924 ), Game of "Sick Lady" of Maurice Beaubourg ( 1926 ), or drugs and paintings , contemporary art music of François Quelvée (undated).

Suffering from a severe and disabling disease, he should stop painting in the early 1930s , and died in 1937