Georges de Feure French Art Nouveau Fantasy Color Lithograph-Le Retour

Description: Please read description and look at photos carefully. Be sure to refer to our terms and conditions and ask any and all questions before making a purchase. INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: PLEASE READ IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING. Thank you! Beautiful color lithograph print on paper by Georges de Feure (Belgian/French Art Nouveau, 1868-1943).Titled “Le Retour”, from "L'Estampe Moderne” originally created in 1897. Signed in the plate in the lower left portion. Stamped in the lower right margin. See image background information and artist biography below. Plate image measures 12.75x ~10 inches, finished with a mat and a beautiful gold frame that measures 24.25x ~20 inches. Appears to be in overall very good condition: frame has extremely light wear, print has very slight waves. The print has not been removed from the frame for further inspection. If the buyer prefers the print be shipped without the frame please make this request before purchasing so that shipping charges can be adjusted accordingly. This piece will make a stunning addition to any fine art collection! Please read description and look at photos carefully. Be sure to refer to our terms and conditions and ask any and all questions before making a purchase. INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS: PLEASE READ IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING. Thank you! Background information about this image: L'Estampe Moderne was published between May 1897, and April 1899. The premise was the same as with Les Maitres de l'Affiche, in that every month four prints were issued to subscribers, delivered in a portfolio sleeve designed by Mucha. In all there was a total of 100 images. However, as the name implies, these were not posters, but prints, designed by many of the popular artists of the day. The technical and editorial team responsible for publishing the works was amongst the best of its day: the printer was Champenois, and the directors were Charles Piazza (who published Mucha's Ilsee and Le Pater) and Charles Masson, the director of the Musee du Luxembourg. In an attempt to reach as wide and popular audience as possible 2000 of each print, and 100 extra on Japan-paper were printed. Although all of the prints were designed especially for this portfolio not all of them were printed in the same way, as some were collotypes (photographically reproduced). Many of the artists chosen to have their work published were also quite academic, and their prints pale in comparison with those done by the recognizable names from the poster world. As Phillip Denis Cates writes in The Color Revolution, the project "had some saving graces, however, with the color lithographs of Mucha, Louis Rhead, Georges Meunier, Dillon, de Feure and Henri Evenpoel maintaining the artistic standards of Marty and Vollard" (Color Revolution p. 27). De Feure's print, Le Retour, belongs to his third symbolic period, as classified by Ian Millman. It was done at the time when he was working with the poet Marcel Schwab at Le Porte des Reves. The exquisite lithograph is both symbolist, yet archly Art Nouveau in style, depicting a lady waiting for the return of her prince. Millman. About Georges De Feure: Of Belgian and Dutch origins, Georges de Feure was largely self-taught as an artist. He was born Georges Joseph van Sluijters in Paris, where his father worked as an architect. Returning with his family to the Netherlands with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870, De Feure did not come back to Paris until 1889.Settling in Montmartre, he may have trained with Jules Chéret and began working as an artist and illustrator. De Feure soon allied himself with the Symbolist movement, taking part in the Exposition des Peintres Impressionistes et Symbolistes at the Galerie Le Barc de Boutteville, alongside Gauguin and the Nabis artists, as well as showing his work at the Salons de la Rose + Croix of 1893 and 1894, where his watercolours garnered some critical praise. De Feure exhibited at the Societé Nationale in 1894, and the same year an exhibition of his watercolours was held at the Galerie des Artistes modernes in Paris, leading one critic to describe him as ‘an artist whose work is never banal, but whose symbolism is not always accessible.’ By this time De Feure was also designing posters, many seemingly influenced by Japanese prints, as well as producing colour lithographs.Like such contemporaries as Alphonse Mucha and Eugène Grasset, Georges de Feure was equally adept in the field of applied or decorative arts. Aptly described by one modern scholar as ‘the most art nouveau of all the Symbolists’, De Feure embarked on an association with the Art Nouveau pioneer Siegfried Bing that was to establish his reputation. He decorated the facade and designed two suites of furniture for Bing’s Pavillon de l’Art Nouveau at the great Exposition Universelle of 1900, a project that earned extravagant praise from critics, and thereafter worked closely with Bing as an artiste-décorateur, providing numerous designs for furniture, stained glass, wallpaper, ceramics and lamps. In 1903 a large exhibition of his decorative work for Bing’s Galerie de l’Art Nouveau was held in Paris, later travelling to The Hague and Hamburg. De Feure also established his own atelier, which handled commissions from other sources, such as Julius Meier-Graefe’s gallery La Maison Moderne. He continued to work as a designer and interior decorator after Bing’s death in 1905, and also undertook a number of commissions for scenery and costume designs for the stage. Among his significant later projects was the decoration of the Parisian studio of the couturier Madeleine Vionnet in 1922, and interiors and pavilions for various expositions. 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Price: 599 USD

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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