1897 original litho "Femme du Riff” by L. –A. Girardot

Description: L'Estampe Moderne 1897 Original Fine Art Stone Lithograph – from an edition of 2000"Femme du Riff” by Artist Louis-Auguste Girardot, Signed in the Stone, Blindstamp lower right Original from the 1897 fine art print edition – Not a copy or a modern reprint. New Conservation Framing including Custom Black and Gold Wood Frame,8ply Museum Mat, UV Acrylic – Wired and Ready to Hang. Louis-Auguste Girardot is an Orientalist painter and French lithographer, born on September 27, 1856 at Loulans-les-Forges (Haute-Saône) and died on April 22, 1933 in Paris. Former resident of the city of Troyes and son of a mechanic, Louis-Auguste Girardot is enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1881 to 1886, a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Paul Dubois. He became a member of the National Society of Fine Arts in 1890, and appears at the exhibitions of the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts thereafter. In 1887, for the first time, the State purchased one of his paintings and was awarded the Marie Bashkirtseff Prize. He obtained a travel grant that year and left for Spain, Algeria and Morocco, regions that inspired him many compositions thereafter. In April 1888, he left for Tangier to join the painter Jules-Alexis Muenier, with whom he made an excursion to Tetuan, accompanied by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. In 1897, he executed a lithograph entitled Femme du Riff for the publication of L'Estampe moderne. For the Universal Exhibition of 1900, he composes a large lithographed poster entitled Andalusia at the time of the Moors and organizes the exhibition of orientalist painters for the pavilion of Algeria. In 1903, he was named knight of the Legion of Honor 4 with godfather his master Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1907, during the Salon des peintres orientalistes français, he co-founded, with Étienne Dinet, Victor Prouvé and Jean-Adolphe Chudant, the Provincial Union of Decorative Arts: Girardot deals with the Franche-Comté region within the Union comtoise decorative arts, which seems to be at the origin of this movement. L’Estampe Moderne (Modern Print): was a French monthly publication published between May 1897 and April 1899, which proposed 4 original lithographs in each of its issues. The aim was to promote the art of printmaking by commissioning images from noted Art Nouveau artists, such as Alphonse Mucha, Louis Rhead, Marcel-Lenoir, Henri Boutet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edward Burne-Jones and Théophile Steinlen. On the introductory prospectus, the first issue is announced at the price of 3.50 francs, for 4 unpublished prints in color, which puts the engraving at less than one franc piece. The annual subscription was 40 francs and the subscriber received two "premium plates" (the first was designed by Alfons Mucha). The first four plates are: Women of Riff of Girardot, Merchant laces of Malteste, Fall of Ménard and Corinne of Réalier-Dumas. Each engraving was presented in a portfolio folder on which print references were printed and a generally poetic text related to the motif. On each print, unsigned by hand, however, was affixed a colorless dry stamp of authentication representing a head disheveled child. The dimensions are 26.6 cm x 33.4 cm and the paper is a vellum. The circulation was 2,000 copies in current edition and 150 copies on Japan. There were a total of 24 issues, or 96 plates, not including the 6 "premium" plates for subscribers. – These prints are much sought after in the current art world. –

Price: 685 USD

Location: San Carlos, California

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