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EUGENE GRASSET (1841-1917) AND LOUIS J. RHEAD (1858-1926) [L'ESTAMPE MODERNE.] Three plates. 1897. Each 16x121/8 inches. Champenois, Paris. Condition varies, generally A. Paper. Louis Rhead fell under Grasset's spell when he went to visit a one-man show of the artist's work at the Salon des Cent. He himself became a familiar of the La Plume circle, and in 1897 was awarded his own one-man show there. Each man is a powerful force in the world of Art Nouveau design and theory, but their work in this project is vastly disparate. While Grasset's plate Dans les Bois (Into the Woods) is both small and printed in collotype, the two plates Rhead designed for the project are superb. Both La Femme au Paon (Women with a peacock) and Jane (which was one of the supplemental prints reserved for subscribers) are high quality lithographs, in bright, solid colors that are classic Rheads, depicting women amidst masterfully stylized vegetation.
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