L’Estampe Moderne — set of 15 original plates, 1897–1899
By STEINLEN T.A. (1859-1923)
L’Estampe Moderne — set of 15 original plates, 1897–1899
Date / publisher: Imprimerie Champenois, Paris, for Ch. Masson & H. Piazza; issued monthly, May 1897 – April 1899
Original colour lithographs on wove paper (a few printed in black), each an unpublished composition created especially for the series; each accompanied by a captioned tissue guard (serpente) bearing a literary or poetic text. Each sheet with the embossed L’Estampe Moderne blindstamp (a young woman’s profile, Lugt 2790) in the lower-right margin and the artist’s signature within the plate
Dimensions: sheet approx. 39 × 29 cm (15¼ × 11½ in.) — height × width; landscape plates the reverse (29 × 39 cm)
Plates in the set:
No. 1 (May 1897) — Louis Malteste — “Marchande de Lacets”
No. 4 (Aug 1897, Pl. 39) — Charles Léandre — “Noël”
No. 7 (Nov 1897) — Jacques Wély — “Fleur de Lande”
No. 8 (Dec 1897, Pl. 31) — Lucien Simon — “Les Marguilliers”
No. 9 (Jan 1898) — Paul-Albert Laurens — “Le Bain des Nymphes”
No. 15 (Jul 1898) — Maximilienne Guyon — “Maris Stella”
No. 16 (Aug 1898) — Henri-Gabriel Ibels — “Pantomime”
No. 16 (Aug 1898) — Manuel Robbe — “Menuet d’automne”
No. 17 (Sep 1898) — J.-A. Muenier — “Le Retour des Champs”
No. 18 (Oct 1898) — Louise Breslau — “Fillette à l’Orange”
No. 19 (Nov 1898) — Louis Borgex — “Les Sardinières”
No. 19 (Nov 1898) — Raoul André Ulmann — “Tristesse sur la mer”
1898 — Eugène Delâtre — “Kacia”
1898 — Jeanne Granès — “L’Aïeule”
1898 — Charles Huard — “Les Pêcheurs à la ligne” (monogram “H”)
Condition: Varies from sheet to sheet; overall fair. The support and margins show defects — foxing, toning / mat-burn, marginal tears, corner losses and old tape residue at the corners (notably Guyon, Granès, Laurens, Huard, Ulmann, and Wély at the upper margin); a few sheets in very good condition (Delâtre, Muenier, Malteste). The lithographed images themselves (the subjects), however, are generally clean and fresh: plates recommended for framing, with a mat concealing the worn margins to make them fully presentable.
Price : 150,00 € ( 170.00 USD )
