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Couverture de L'Estampe Moderne n°10 février 1898

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Couverture de L'Estampe Moderne n°10 février 1898

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Paris: Imprimerie Champenois |pour CH. Masson |& H. Piazza, 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson & H. Piazza, Paris Février 1898, 41x56cm, une feuille. - Estampe originale en noir et blanc à grandes marges servant de couverture à la célèbre publication mensuelle de l'Estampe Moderne. Entièrement imprimée en noir, notre estampe est la couverture de la rare réunion en volume de luxe à grandes marges de la première année de publication. Signature de l'artiste dans la planche et numéro du tirage de luxe ajouté au crayon. Magnifique publication mensuelle française éditée entre mai 1897 et avril 1899, L'Estampe moderne se constitue de chromolithographies inédites qui, contrairement à d'autres revues comme Les Maîtres de l'Affiche et tel qu'il est stipulé sur les serpentes, ont été réalisées spécialement par chaque artiste pour la revue. Ce sont ainsi 100 estampes qui paraissent au total, couvrant les courants artistiques majeurs de la fin du XIXème siècle : Symbolisme, Art Nouveau, Préraphaélites, Orientalistes et Belle Epoque. Chaque livraison de quatre estampes est tirée à 2000 exemplaires vendus 3,50F et 100 sur papier Japon proposés à 10F. Henri Piazza prévoit également un tirage confidentiel de très grand luxe : 50 exemplaires sur Japon à grandes marges et 50 en noir sur Chine au prix considérable de 30F. L'intérêt des collectionneurs français pour les affiches artistiques s'amplifie au début des années 1890. Octave Uzanne, pour qualifier cette fièvre invente le terme d'« affichomanie ». L'affiche, à l'origine populaire et placardée dans les rues de la capitale, devient alors objet d'art et son support éphémère se fait précieux et voué à la conservation. Piazza décide de soustraire l'affiche à sa vocation publicitaire et de l'élever au rang d'œuvre d'art à part entière au même titre que le livre illustré de luxe. Il compose ainsi une collection prestigieuse d'œuvres entièrement originales, par les artistes européens les plus en vue du moment : Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc. L'éditeur intègre également à son projet un artiste tchèque fraîchement débarqué à Paris, Alfons Mucha « qui s'est révélé depuis peu en France et qui a conquis d'emblée une si grande place dans la faveur du public. Comme dans ses affiches, que tout le monde connaît et recherche, il nous montre ici les ressources variées de son talent multiple et sûr de dessinateur, de décorateur et de coloriste. » (légende imprimée sur la serpente de Salomé). C'est d'ailleurs à lui que sera confiée la première prime de la revue, offerte « à tous les souscripteurs des douze livraisons annuelles de L'Estampe moderne » ainsi que la célèbre illustration des couvertures. Très bel exemplaire. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Cover of L'Estampe Moderne n°10 February 1898 L'Estampe Moderne | Imprimerie Champenois for C. H. Masson & H. Piazza | Paris February 1898 | 41 x 56 cm | one leaf Original print in black and white with large margins, serving as the cover for the famous monthly publication Estampe Moderne. Entirely printed in black and white, our print is the cover of the rare collation in large-margin luxury print of the first year of publication. Artist's signature on the board and number of the tirage de luxe added in pencil. A magnificent monthly French publication that appeared between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne comprised unpublished chromolithographs that, unlike those in other magazines like Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as is stipulated on the guard sheets, were specially made by each artist for the magazine. There are thus 100 prints that appeared in total, covering the major artistic currents of the late 19th Century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, the Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and the Belle époque. Each fascicule of four prints was printed in 2,000 copies and sold for 3.50F, with 100 on Japan paper sold at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a very luxurious secret printing of 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black and white on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This well-sized print is superbly printed in colors on the most prestigious of papers: Japan. Thick, creamy, satin and with a nice sheen, it contributes to making each page a work of art in itself. Its absorptive qualities for ink and its affinity for colors make it the ideal support for these lovely lithographs. The interest of French collectors for artistic posters grew from the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne invented a term for this growing interest: affichomanie, or poster mania. The poster, originally not rare and posted up in the streets of the capital, thus became a work of art and its ephemeral background became precious and essential for conservation. Piazza decided to extract the poster from its advertising role and to elevate it to a form of art, similarly to luxury illustrated artists' books. He thus put together a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most fashionable European artists of the age: Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc. He also included in this project a Czech artist freshly arrived in Paris, Alfonse Mucha ""who has only recently become active in France but who has immediately carved out for himself the affection of the public. Like in his posters, which everyone knows and covets, he shows us here the varied resources of his multifaceted talents as accomplished draughstman, decorator and colorist"" (from the notes printed on the guard for Salomé). The two first special numbers of the review were in fact dedicated to him, and were given to ""all the subscribers for all twelve annual numbers of L'Estampe moderne"" as well as the famous illustration of the covers. A very beautiful copy.

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Title
Couverture de L'Estampe Moderne n°10 février 1898
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ANONYME
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Imprimerie Champenois |pour CH. Masson |& H. Piazza
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1898
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