Ranft Richard, 1862-1931
Coquetterie,
Etching
20 x 12.5cm
1/30, Signed in pencil
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Aman-Jean Edmond
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1858-1936
Born in Chevry-Cossigny, Amand Edmond François Jean was orphaned before he was ten, and was brought up by an uncle in Paris. He entered a sculptor's studio as an apprentice then, in 1887, entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with his fellow apprentice Georges Seurat, though they left a year later to show solidarity with the Impressionists. In 1883 he became assistant to Puvis de Chavannes and exhibited at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français, where he was awarded a Third Class
Auriol Georges
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1863-1938
Born in Beauvais, he was one of the artists connected with the Chat Noir cabaret in Montmartre, along with Steinlen and Willette. He edited the Chat Noir magazine, which he illustrated and for which he wrote a number of songs and humorous tales. Painter, lithographer and designer, he published three volumes of monograms and trade marks, and designed the Auriol typeface, all in pure Art Nouveau style. In 1896 he exhibited with the Munich Secession. He illustrated a number of books, and
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Barbier George
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1882-1932
Born in Nantes. Primarily a book illustrator, he also designed fabrics, wallpapers and posters and commercial wrappings, boxes and postcards. He designed costumes and settings for several theatrical productions and for Rudolph Valentino's movie Monsieur Beaucaire. A regular contributor to 'La Gazette du Bon Ton', the 'Journal des Dames et des Modes', 'Fémina', 'Vogue', 'Comoedia Illustré' and other journals, his illustrations were frequently reproduced in the pochoir process. His fine
Benito Edouard Garcia
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1891-1981
Born in Valladolid, Spain. He was a painter and graphic artist. He illustrated a number of books and published stylized fashion illustrations in various magazines. He also designed for advertising. He exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts until 1934 and at the Salon des Tuileries in 1923. His portraits of Paul Poiret and his wife were included in the Poiret auction sale in November 1925.
Text by Victor Arwas
Berthon Paul
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1872-1909
Born in Villefranche, he moved to Paris when he was twenty-one years old and entered the Ecole Guérin, where he studied painting with Luc Olivier Merson and decorative arts with Eugène Grasset. He executed a number of posters, most of which were also issued without the letters, adding those subjects to the many decorative panels he issued as color lithographs. Several of these fell into groupings, his most prolific being a group of nymphs playing different musical instruments, includi
Bonfils Robert
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1886-1972
Graphic artist painter and designer. After studying at both the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris he exhibited paintings of nudes, landscapes still lifes, flower studies and portraits at the same time as becoming a considerable graphic artist mastering all the techniques. He illustrated a vast number of books, albums and periodicals, designed some exceptionally fine bookbindings, designed porcelain for Sèvres, designed fabrics and wallpapers and executed
Boutet De Monvel Bernard
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1884-1949
Born in Paris, son of the painter and illustrator Louis Boutet de Monvel, he studied with his father, then with the sculptor Jean Dampt and the painter Luc-Olivier Merson. He exhibited at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français from 1903, then at the Salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d'Automne, and was a member of the Committee of the Salon des Tuileries frim 1923 to 1928; he was named Chevalier of the legion d'Honneur. He was a prolific graphic arti
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Chahine Edgar
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1874-1947
Edgar Chahine was born into an Armenian family, and spent his childhood in Constantinople, moving to Venice when he was eighteen in order to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. In 1895 he went to Paris, where he briefly studied at the Académie Julien. Fascinated by the lively life of Paris, he painted aspects of poverty and degradation. In 1899 he discovered the seductive charms of etching, and apprenticed himself to Eugéne Delâtre, master etcher, master printer and subtle colourist
Chéret Jules
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1846-1932
Born in Paris, he was apprenticed to a lithographic firm at the age of thirteen. He taught himself to draw, and produced a number of covers and illustrations for books and brochures. In 1856 he went to England, where he spent ten years studying the latest advances in color lithography. Back in Paris in 1886 he opened his own printing firm and began a highly successful career as a poster artist. He virtually created the modern poster, filling the streets with highly colorful images bas
Colin Paul
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1892-1985
Born in Nancy, he was a painter, poster artist and decorator. In 1923 he was chosen by Rolf de Maré as stage designer and poster artist for the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Two years later he did the poster for the 'Revue Nègre', the start of a long association with Josephine Baker, whose favorite poster artist he became. He also painted a number of variations on here dancing and on black American Jazz musicians. He designed over 500 sharply delineated and stylized posters and designed
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De Feure Georges
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1868-1943
Born Georges Joseph Van Sluijters in Paris of Belgian and Dutch parents, he studied with Jules Chéret in 1890, and supplied illustrations to a number of periodicals, including Le Courier Français, Le Boulevard, Le Messager Français, Le Figaro Ilustré, and L’Image. He was a painter, lithographer, poster artist, designer of porcelain executed in Limoges, book illustrator, and designer of leaded glass panels and tapestries. As an interior designer for Bing’s L’Art Nouveau he designed fur
Desbois Jules
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1851-1935
Born in Parcay-les-Pins, he studied sculpture at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris under Pierre Cavelier. He first exhibited at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français in 1875, and was awarded a Third Class Medal. He was later awarded a Second Class Medal in 1877, a First Class Medal in 1887, a Gold Medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, and was a Member of the Jury at the 1900 one. He was named Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1889, Officier in 1908, and Commandeur in 1
Domergue Jean-Gabriel
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1889-1962
Born in Bordeaux, he was a painter. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Tony Rogert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre, Adler, Humbert and Flameng, and won the Prix de Rome in 1913. His early landscapes gave way to portraits of celebrities and beautiful women, and he soon developed a characteristic style, elongating his models, all of whom develop long, slender necks, long, slender and shapely arms and legs, sensual lips and eyes and adopt elegant clothes and posture. He exhibited at the
Dufy Raoul
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1877-1953
Born in Le Havre, he was a painter, designer and graphic artist. He illustrated a number of books with woodcuts, etchings and lithographs. In 1911 Paul Poiret commissioned him to design fabrics, and set up a studio for him. A year later he moved to Bianchini-Férier, for whom he designed dress and upholstery fabrics until 1930, as well as printed panels. In 1925 he designed fourteen large hangings for Poiret’s houseboats moored within the Exhibition area. From 1930 to 1933 he designed
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Fini Leonor
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1907-1996
Born in Buenos Aires Fini was brought up in Trieste, in Italy. Uninterested in the school curriculum, she was determined to become an artist by immersing herself in books, in museums and learning about anatomy in the Morgue. Completely self-taught, she honed and refined her technical skills and creativity throughout her life.She first moved to Milan then went to Paris, where she was to live most of her life. Her beauty, outgoing personality and immense capacity for friendship brought
Flamand Georges
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1895-1920
Born in Paris, he studied under Falguières before establishing himself as one of the most successful sculptors of Art Nouveau bronzes, mostly Symbolist in inspiration. Some subjects, like The Girl in the Dungeon, representing a lush female nude on the side of a rectangular vase with a shaped top, is situated by the representation of a barred opening cut into the front of the vase. He also executed a number of smaller vases with the face of a maiden and similar dungeon-inspired opening
Foujita Tsuguharu
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1886-1968
Born in Tokyo, he was a painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Tokyo Imperial School of Fine Arts, sold a picture for the emperor’s collection and painted the portrait of the emperor of Korea in 1911 before travelling to London in 1912 and to Paris the following year. Painting, drawing and etching in a uniquely personal style, he depicted beautifully stylized nudes and cats as well as larger and complex compositions and became totally involved in the social and intellectual lif
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Kann Léon
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1859-1925
Born in Damboch (Alsace), he studied sculpture with Aimé Millet and Pierre Rouillard. He concentrated on small decorative objects, most of them in the Art Nouveau style, and exhibited in the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français from 1889, receiving a Mention Honorable in 1907 and a Third Class Medal in 1908; he had been elected Full Member in 1904. Siot-Decauville edited sixty-six of his works in bronze or pewter.
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Korschann Charles
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1872-1943
Born in Brno in Moravia, he attended the Fine Arts Academies in Vienna and Berlin. Although he frequently returned to Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but a constituent part of Czecho-Slovakia after the First World War, he spent most of his life after 1894 in Paris. He designed many small mostly Art Nouveau subjects including vases, inkwells, clocks, lamps, wall sconces, and jardinières among those with some utility, often with full figures of elegant women, nearly al
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Laporte-Blairsy Léo
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1865-1923
Born in Toulouse, he studied with Alexandre Falguière and Antonin Mercié, both from Toulouse. Moving to Paris, he exhibited his sculpture at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français, to which he was elected Full Member in 1897; he was awarded a Third Class Medal in 1984, a Second Class Medal in 1898, a Silver Medal at the Exposition Univeselle in 1900 and a First Class Medal in 1904, a year after being named Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. He executed many monumental sculptu
Laurencin Marie
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1883-1956
Born in Paris, she was a painter and graphic artist. Introduced to the Bateau-Lavoir by Georges Braque, she was introduced to Cubism and Fauvism, but retained a very personal pastel palette, delicate treatment, and evanescent subjects. Her favourite themes revolved around girls, flowers, amazons, horses, dogs, cats and does with the occasional monkey. She supplied André Mare’s Cubist House at the 1912 Salon d’Automne with paintings, exhibited frequently at Léonce Rosenberg’s gallery,
Ledru Auguste
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1860-1902
Born n Paris, he studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there under Auguste Jean, Bonnassieux, Thomas and Boisseau. Though trained to execute statuary, he chose to devote himself to the decorative arts, executing small sculptures based on sensual nude nymphs in conjunction with natural forms, particularly shells, and occasional sea creatures. He exhibited at the Salons of the Société des Artistes Français from 1883, and was awared a Mention Honorable in 1892 and a bronze Medal
Lemaire Hector
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1846-1933
Born in Lille, he studied there then in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs under Dumont and Falquière. He won the competition of the Foundation Wicar of Lille which enabled him to live for four years in Rome. On his return to France he executed several important commissions, including a statue of an allegory of Music for the Theatre in Bordeaux, another sculpture for the Theatre of Lille, the tomb of Marie d’Orléans at Dreux, a stone statue in the Tuileries Garden adjoining the Lo
Lepape Georges
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1887-1971
Born in Paris, he was a painter, illustrator and designer. He illustrated an album of fashion designs for Paul Iribe in 1911, following the success of the previous album illusrated by Iribe, and was one of the principal illustrators of ‘La Gazette du Bon Ton’, supplying Poiret not only with occasional original models, but also with some fabrics designs. He illustrated books, including the complete works of Alfred de Musset, executed a vast number of covers and fashion illustrations fo
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Makeig-Jones Susannah Margaretta
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She was born in Wath-upon-Dearne near Rotherham, Yorkshire. She was home-taught , then attended a boardig shool in Rugby. Later, her family moved to Torquay where she studies at the Torquay School of Art. In 1909 she joined Cecil Wedgwood pottery as an apprentice painter. Two year later her Oriental dragon patterns appeared and in 1915 was followed by her signature Fairy Lustre design. By 1929 however, Makeig-Jones' fairy line was discontinued; decorative approach of Art Nouveu was replaced by m
Martin Charles
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1848-1934
Born in Montpellier, he was illustrator, graphic artist and designer. He studied at the Montpellier Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Académie Julian and the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cormon. He was a prolific illustrator, working for ‘La Gezette du Bon Ton’, ‘Le Journal des Dames et des Modes’, ‘Feuillets d’Art’, ‘Fémina’, ‘Le Soutire’, ‘Le Rire’, ‘Vogue’, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ and ‘Vanity Fair’, and illustrated a large number of books. He exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon de
Martin Frank
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1921-2005
Frank Martin (1921-2005) was a student at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery, remaining in the Army until 1946. He then returned to Oxford where he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in History, then enrolled at St. Martin's School of Art. He studied wood engraving with Gertrude Hermes, becoming her Studio Assistant for colour printing. He then studied etching privately with John Buckland Wright.
As a free-lance illustrator and wood engrave
Mougin Freres
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Joseph Mougin (1876-1961) and his brother Pierre (1880-1955) were both born in Nancy. At the age of sixteen Joseph was apprenticed to a sculptor of religious statuary. In 1884 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he studied under Barrias. He first exhibited at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1896. Fascinated by the work of Carriès, he decided to become a ceramist, and in 1897 opened his fist ceramics workshop, which was soon replaced by another and still another.
Mucha Alphonse
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1860-1939
Born in Ivančice, worked for a firm producing theatrical sets in Vienna, but left in 1882 when the theatre burned down. Chance brought him to Count Karl Khuen-Belassi, who commissioned him o decorate his Castle of Emmahof before sending him to the Fine Arts Academy in Munich to study. He was there between 1884 and 1887 when he moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian then at the Académie Colarossi, where he studied with Jean-Paul Laurens, Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. When his s
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Vertès Marcel
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1895-1962
Born in Budapest he was a painter, graphic artist and illustrator. A student of K. Ferenczy in Budapest, he moved to Vienna where he quickly established a fine reputation as a poster artist, then on to Paris in 1925, when he was commissioned by Maurice Exteens, Gustave Pellet’s son-in-law and successor, to illustrate two albums of lithographs, one in black called ‘Maisons’, the other in colour called ‘Dancings’, the latter somehow reminiscent of Toulouse-Lautrec’s album ‘Elles’, publi
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