Description
Framed, 94 x 72 cm, frame elaborately silvered by hand,
backed on linen
Famous poster by Grasset for the „Exposition d’Art Décoratif“,
Grafton Gallery, London, 1893, where in November - December
the first exhibition of French artists in decorative arts took place.
This poster was the model for a stained glass window which is now
in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.
Marks
monogrammed on the stone bottom left or right: EG
Provenance
Calderwood Gallery, Philadelphia
Exhibited
„IRIS Mythos - Symbol - Gestalt“, Bröhan Museum, Berlin,
2002, exhibition catalogue, pag. 203
Literature
Roger Sainton „Art Nouveau Posters & Graphics“,
London/New York, not dated, pag. 18 and front page