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Art Nouveau Exhibition
This January Sanders invites you to view our newly formed collection of decorative and graphic works from this iconic period of European Art and Design.
Available to purchase will be a stunning selection of original Lithographs printed for the major publications of the Art Nouveau movement.
Featuring Work by Hans Christiansen, Louis Rhead, William Nicholson and many more.
You are invited to the Private View:
Thursday 12th January, 2012. 5:30 - 8:00PM
Exhibition continues: 13th - 28th January.
To view all the prints in the exhibition please click here to download the catalogue. Or view some of the highlights below.
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 28.La femme au paon [Woman with a Peacock]
Lithograph
Louis John Rhead
L'Estampe Moderne, no.20, December 1898.
Image 336 x 222 mm, Sheet 403 x 303 mm
framed
From L'Estampe Moderne, no. 20, December 1898.
Lithograph by Louis John Rhead, signed in the stone. Blind stamped in bottom-right corner of sheet with the image of a young woman’s profile, the emblem of L'Estampe Moderne.
Louis John Rhead (1857 - 1926) was an English-born American artist and illustrator, best known for his poster designs. Born in Etruria, Staffordshire, Rhead was the son of George W. Rhead, a highly respected gilder and ceramicist who founded Fenton School of Art. Having displayed artistic talent from a young age, the thirteen year old Rhead was sent to Paris for three years to study under the Neo-Classical figurative painter Gustave Boulanger. On his return to England, Rhead studied at the National Art Training School in South Kensington and worked for the Cassell publishing house and the Minton and Wedgewood potteries. In 1883 at the age of twenty-four, Rhead was appointed Art Director of the American publishing firm D. Appleton in New York. By the early 1890's Rhead had become a prominent poster artist, and was heavily influenced by the work of Art Nouveau artists, particularly Eugène Grasset. During the poster craze of the 1890's, Rhead’s poster art appeared regularly in a variety of magazines and journals, including Harper’s Bazaar and Ladies Home Journal. In 1895 he won a Gold Medal for Best American Poster Design at the first International Poster Show in Boston.
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 19.L’Heure du Berger
Lithograph
Hans Christiansen
L'Estampe Moderne, no. 11, March 1898.
Image 350 x 222 mm, Sheet 404 x 305 mm
framed
From L'Estampe Moderne, no. 11, March 1898.
Lithograph by Hans Christiansen, signed in the stone. Blind stamped in bottom-right corner of sheet with the image of a young woman’s profile, the emblem of L'Estampe Moderne, with original tissue guard.
Hans Christiansen (1866-1945) is regarded as one of the most important representatives of German Art Nouveau. He was born in Flensburg and died in Wiesbaden. He was already well-known as a major figure in the German Arts and Crafts movement, the Volkskunst-Verein, when at the age of twenty-nine he moved to Paris to study painting at the Académie Julian. The art of Hans Christiansen was influenced both by Art Nouveau and the work of the Nabis; Mucha and Toulouse-Lautrec were particularly strong influences. Christiansen was banned from painting by the Nazis in 1933, and concentrated thereafter on textile designs.
L'Estampe Moderne was first published in five folios between November 1895 and March 1896 and edited by Loÿs Delteil. The aim was to promote the art of printmaking by commissioning images from noted Art Nouveau artists. It reappeared under the editorship of Ch. Masson and H. Piazza in May 1897 and was published monthly until April 1899. Each edition was priced at 3 francs 50 centimes and printed by Imprimerie Champenois, Paris. As well as four original lithographs by Art Nouveau artists, each issue came in a paper cover bearing an original lithograph by one of the most famous members of the movement, Alphonse Mucha. The publisher also offered two extra lithographs a year, the “planches de prime”, as an incentive to prospective subscribers.
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14.Froideur
Lithograph with Gold highlights
Eugène Samuel Grasset
G. de Malherbe, 1897
Image 150 mm Cirular, Sheet 208 x 190 mm
framed
Lithograph by Eugène Grasset, signed with the artist's monogram EG in the stone.
A reduction of the larger Froideur printed to publicise a series of ten prints published as 'dix estampes decoratives (caracteres de femmes, fleurs emblematiques)', 1897
Eugène Samuel Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) was a Swiss decorative artist who worked in Paris, France in a variety of creative design fields during the Belle Époque. He is considered a pioneer in Art Nouveau design.
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34.When Hearts Are Trumps by Tom Hall
Lithograph
Willaim H Bradley
1894
Image 280 x 230 mm, Sheet 390 x 285 mm
framed
From Les Maitres de l’Affiche PL. 52.
Lithograph by William H. Bradley, signed by the artist in the stone. Blind stamped in bottom-right corner of sheet with the image of a poster held aloft by a seated elegantly dressed lady, the emblem of Les Maitres de l’Affiche .
[27504]
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35.Victor Bicycles
Lithograph
Willaim H Bradley
1896
Image 230 x 333 mm, Sheet 290 x 393 mm
framed
From Les Maitres de l’Affiche PL. 152.
Lithograph by William H. Bradley, signed by the artist in the stone. Blind stamped in bottom-right corner of sheet with the image of a poster held aloft by a seated elegantly dressed lady, the emblem of Les Maitres de l’Affiche .
Bradley’s advertisement for the Overman Wheel Company’s Victor Bicycles, is one of his best-known and acclaimed designs. Like every good poster artist, Bradley didn’t try to sell the technology, but the allure of bike riding. Of this poster, Rogers states that it is a "notable achievement" and it "demonstrates that this artist can, at will, accommodate his method to the subject, no matter what it is . . . In a scheme of violet and white, [it] has much carrying force, and is an example of how effectiveness may be secured by simplicity and a proper balance of the colour masses".
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