Paul Emile Berthon (1872-1909)
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Title:
Queen Wilhelmina
Date:
1901
Size:
7.25" x 9.25"
Medium:
Lithograph
Price:
$650.00
INV. #:
17304
Original: Sa Tres Gracieuse Majeste La Reine Wilhelmine (Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Wilhelmine) Professional acid-free archival linen backed and ready to frame. This original turn of the century high quality lithograph with ull burnished gold on her bonner was trimmed to the image size when it was previously framed. The outter paper was trimmed from the image; but the master image is complete; intact, and in great condition.
Paul Emile Berthon 'Paul Berthon': Along with the art of Alfons Mucha, the lithographs of Paul Emile Berthon stand at the centre of our interpretation of Art Nouveau grace and beauty. Despite his very short life it is impossible not to rank Paul Berthon among the greatest masters of this entire turn-of-the-century movement.
Reference: Victor Arwas, Berthon and Grasset, Academy Editions, Paris, 1978.
Cataloglue # 61, Third and Final State, Arwas relates that the first state was printed in an edition of 50 impressions and that the second state consisted of 100 impressions. The third state was printed in an edition of 200. The stone was then effaced and thus no later impressions were struck.
Paul Emile Berthon 'Paul Berthon': Along with the art of Alfons Mucha, the lithographs of Paul Emile Berthon stand at the centre of our interpretation of Art Nouveau grace and beauty. Despite his very short life it is impossible not to rank Paul Berthon among the greatest masters of this entire turn-of-the-century movement.
Reference: Victor Arwas, Berthon and Grasset, Academy Editions, Paris, 1978.
Cataloglue # 61, Third and Final State, Arwas relates that the first state was printed in an edition of 50 impressions and that the second state consisted of 100 impressions. The third state was printed in an edition of 200. The stone was then effaced and thus no later impressions were struck.