Live auction - Lot 192

Beautiful Art Nouveau collection

[Art Nouveau]

L'Estampe moderne. Dir. Ch. Masson & H. Piazza. Publication mensuelle [...].

Paris, Champenois, 1897-1899

€ 12.000 / 15.000

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Lot description

2 vol., folio, 24 issues (without preface, n. 1 without printed tissue guard, marg. spots in 1st pl. n. 1, sm. marg. spots on pl. in n. 9, some marg. foxing on "Jeux de fillettes" by E. Dinet, some sm. def. on tissue guards: folds, light foxing, torn corner, sm. marg. tears, tear in wr. of n. 10). Nice copy.

Orn. Art Nouveau publ. folder (sm. def.), ill. publ. wr. by Mucha, printed tissue guard.

Rare complete set (without preface) with 24 issues each containing 4 previously unpublished chromolithographs composed for this publication, totalling 96 pl., and also containing 4 "planches de prime" reserved for subscribers: "L'incantation" by Alfons Mucha (added a posteriori), "Jane" by Louis Rhead, "L'énigme" by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, and "Salomé" by Luc-Oliver Merson. Other leading French and foreign artists incl. Armand Berton, Edward Burne-Jones, Etienne Dinet, Auguste Donnay, Charles Doudelet, Robert Engels, Henri Evenepoel, Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Le Sidaner, Franz M. Melchers, Henri Meunier, Armand Rassenfosse, Richard Ranft, etc. Copy on wove paper (150 copies were issued on Japan paper), each pl. with blindstamp "L'Estampe moderne" in lower marg. Beautiful collection, rarely found complete.

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Lot 192

Beautiful Art Nouveau collection

L'Estampe moderne. Dir. Ch. Masson & H. Piazza. Publication mensuelle [...].

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