Gustave-Max Stevens – L’Estampe Moderne : Solveig, 1898

By STEVENS Gustave-Max (1871-1946)

Gustave-Max STEVENS (1871–1946)
Solveig, 1898 — from L’Estampe Moderne, no. 9, January 1898
Original colour lithograph on wove paper, printed by Imprimerie Champenois, Paris, for Ch. Masson & H. Piazza
Signed in the plate lower right; L’Estampe Moderne blindstamp (Lugt 2790) in the lower right margin
Dimensions:
Sheet: 30.5 × 40.5 cm (12 × 15.9 in.)
Image: 24.5 × 35 cm (9.6 × 13.8 in.)
Condition:
Good condition. Minor defects confined to the margins: light creases and small marginal tears, not affecting the image; brown stain in the lower left corner of the margin. Unframed.
Inspired by Solveig’s song from Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, an extract of which appeared on the tissue guard. Stevens, a Brussels Symbolist influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, exhibited at the first Salon d’Art Idéaliste in 1896.
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