Art Nouveau

Original "The Virgin Queen" vintage movie poster. NSS: 55/302 Archival linen backed with original issued fold marks restored. Linen-backed and in excellent condition. No pape...

Miss Taylor Drypoint, c. 1900 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Small edition, about 10 Very rich impression, full of burr Condition: Excellent Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4" Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 18 5/8" Reference: Montesquiou XII Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style. When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note. Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures. On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints. Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate. Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati...

Paper Size: 14.5 x 10.5 inches ( 36.83 x 26.67 cm ) Image Size: 12.25 x 7.75 inches ( 31.115 x 19.685 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Lithograph from the...

Hand signed & numbered by the artist. From the edition of 325. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. Pl...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

Portrait de Mme de Mornand is an original drawing in ink on paper realized by Maurice Lourdey (1860-1934) Dated on the upper right 22.02.10 Stamp on the lower right ""CJ" Good con...

English hawk moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English hawk moth chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

The Giant is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner: F.Bac 1922....

Lithograph of George de Feure’s 1896 theatrical Art Nouveau poster promoting Mistinguett’s role as Hélyett in Marjolaine. Hélyett is shown in a delicate pastel palette, enveloped b...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.75 x 5.5 inches ( 22.225 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Litho...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8 x 3.25 inches ( 20.32 x 8.255 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogra...

A beautiful red-haired woman enjoys a Quinquina Dubonnet aperitif with her white cat companion. In early advertising, artists commonly used a redhead as an example of modern-thinking...

Title: Decorative Documents Author: Alfons Mucha. Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.25 x 5 inches ( 20.955 x 12.7 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogra...

Paper Size: 8.25 x 11.5 inches ( 20.955 x 29.21 cm ) Image Size: 6 x 7 inches ( 15.24 x 17.78 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithograph ...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 5.25 inches ( 21.59 x 13.335 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Litho...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inches ( 21.59 x 13.97 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogr...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 3 inches ( 21.59 x 7.62 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithograph...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8 x 5.75 inches ( 20.32 x 14.605 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogr...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8.25 x 5 inches ( 20.955 x 12.7 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogra...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8 x 6.25 inches ( 20.32 x 15.875 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithogr...

Paper Size: 11.5 x 8.25 inches ( 29.21 x 20.955 cm ) Image Size: 8 x 6 inches ( 20.32 x 15.24 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: First printing Lithograph ...

Title: Decorative Documents Author: Alfons Mucha. Publisher: Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 13 Rue Lafayette. Emile Levy publisher. Published ...

Image dimensions: 15.8 x 9.8 cm. Printemps is an original artwork realized by Jacques Beltrand in 1899. Original woodcut on paper. Inscripted on the lower margin: J. Beltrand - Printemps. Good conditions except for a very small rip on the right upper side. Beautiful and fresh print representing a female figure simbolizing the spring. The young woman is smelling fresh flowers in a garden. The work is a very good example of Art Dèco illustration of that period in which the Art Nouveau was bursting. This beautiful work has been realized by Jacques Beltrand (Paris, 1874 - 1977) a Fresh painter, engraver, xylographer. He collaborated with his father Tony Beltrand from 1890. He soon became a master of the xylograph and book illustrator. He exhibited at the Society of Painters and Engravers of Paris and became a member of the Conseil Supérieur des Beaux-Arts and of the Comité des Tuileries where he exhibited until 1944. Most of his works are preserved in the French Prints Cabinet.

ROCHE, Pierre. La Loie Fuller. Text by Roger Marx. 26 pp. With 17 colour relief engravings by Pierre Roche. Small folio, 265 x 200 mm, bound loose as ...

Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990) Title: Evening Creation Year: 1976 Medium: Etching Edition Numbered 53/175 in pencil Image size: 7 x 4 inches Signature: Hand ...

Dall'Alaska al Polo Nord is a rare colored lithograph, printed by G. Ricordi and C. Milano, Milan, in 1898, in the occasion of the theatrical performance organized by the Lombard Ass...

Eugene Grasset The Century Magazine : Napoleon, 1897 Stone ithograph Printed signature in the plate On vellum Size 39 x 29 cm (c. 15.3 x 11.4") ...