Georges de Feure, Retour, chromolithograph, 1897

Georges de Feure, Retour, chromolithograph, 1897 1
Georges de Feure, Retour, chromolithograph, 1897 2
Georges de Feure, Retour, chromolithograph, 1897 3

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Georges de Feure (Paris 1868 - Paris 1943) Belgian-born painter and lithographer, one of the most important artists of French Symbolism. In 1886 he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, which he left at the end of his second year to move to Paris. The Parisian environment influenced his works, which from then on were enlivened by femmes fatales and elements typical of Art Nouveau. For the art dealer Siegfried Bingad he realised the façade and two interiors of the Art Nouveau pavilion at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. He regularly collaborated with magazines and realised decorative interiors moving from Art Nouveau to Art Deco. In the last years of his career he devoted himself to making costumes and decorations for the theatre. The lithograph depicts a half-length woman in the foreground who turns towards the viewer to draw his gaze to the scene unfolding behind her. She is immersed in a fairytale land as she dreams of the return of her beloved prince. The nature, flowers and colours used suggest the atmosphere of Art Nouveau. This is one of four lithographs included in issue no. 2 of 1897 of the magazine L'Estampe moderne. It was published in Paris between May 1897 and April 1899 by l'Imprimerie Champenois in monthly issues each containing four prints. The publishing initiative, a collaboration between the young Italian publisher Henri Piazza and the art critic Charles Masson, was intended to offer a wide public access to the engraving market, and to make the works of the most famous French artists known. The print run of the magazine was 2000 copies. Bottom left engraved signature within the subject. Vividly coloured impression printed on thick white paper applied to period paperboard. Very good condition, intact. Dry stamp in the lower right-hand corner in the white margin belonging to the magazine Estampe moderne. Bibliography: Ian Millman, Georges de Feure: maître du symbolisme et de l'Art Nouveau, Courbevoie, A.C.R. Édition internationale, 1992, p 124.

ID: 11318-1696349110-72856

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French

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before1900

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30.5 cm

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40.5 cm

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