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FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
Ramon Casas,
A color plate, loose as issued, celebrating the new year.
A color plate, loose as issued, celebrating the new year.
Untitled Lithograph from Pel & Ploma
(Modernisme) Casas, Ramon. Untitled Lithograph from Pel & Ploma. Barcelona: Obrador Gràfic Thomas, n.d. [1903 or 1904]. Color lithograph. Sheet: 29.3 x 20 cm. Blind-stamped “Pel & Ploma” and “Thomas.” Two corners with very minor creases, not affecting image. Very good.
A plate, loose as issued, from the famed Catalan arts journal, Pel & Ploma (1899-1903), associated with Utrillo, Picasso, and Rodin. Ramon Casas was the primary illustrator and marketed the magazine through posters, special editions, and supplements such as this one. His frequent subject was the “new” woman—modern, bourgeois, educated, urban—engaged in intellectual activity and sport.
Pel & Ploma ceased publication in December 1903; Casas and Utrillo started Forma in Jan. 1904. This plate presumably celebrates the New Year.
$150
H. Jourdain (Illus.), ca. 1893
Drypoint etching advertisement for a portfolio of fashion etchings.
Drypoint etching advertisement for a portfolio of fashion etchings.
Advertisement Proof for La Parisienne fin XIXe Siècle
(Advertising) (Fashion) (Etching) Jourdain, H. (Illus.) Advertisement Proof for La Parisienne fin XIXe Siècle. [Paris]: n.d. [ca. 1893]. Drypoint, sheet: 16.5 x 21.2 cm, plate: 14.5 x 19.8 cm., signed in plate, H. Jourdain. Trimmed, lr corner creased, very good.
Original drypoint advertisement for a folio of fashion etchings focused on women in the city. A nicely executed example, revealing the printing and ordering customs of the subscription model used by many Parisian art publishers at the turn of the century. Publisher L. Joly was responsible for numerous publications exploring modern, urban life, including Félix Vallotton’s Paris Intense.
This plate reproduced in the contemporary monthly, Le Livre et l’image (186; 1893; É. Rondeau, ed.) where the reviewer writes: “la Parisienne du boulevard et des lieux de plaisir parvenue à un type général d’une délicatesse exquise, qui restera au point de vue de la gráce ambiante, de la connaissance parfaite l’habillement, la femine idéale, comme jadis la Grecque, au point de vue de la pureté des formes et de la beauté physique, voilà ce que le graveur Jourdain a cherché à faire vivre…”
$350