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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
VARIOUS ARTISTS L'ESTAMPE MODERNE. 1897. Group of 46 plates. Each 16x12 1/8 inches. Champenois, Paris. Condition varies, generally A. Paper. L'Estampe Moderne was published between May 1897 and April 1899. As with Les Maitres de l'Affiche, every month four prints were issued to subscribers, delivered in a portfolio sleeve designed by Mucha. In all there were 100 images. As the name implies, these were not posters, but prints, designed by many popular artists. The technical and editorial team responsible for publishing the works was among the best of its day: the printer was Champenois, and the directors were Charles Piazza (who published Mucha's Ilsée and Le Pater), and Charles Masson, the director of the Musée du Luxembourg. In an attempt to reach as wide and popular an audience as possible, 2000 of each print, and 100 extra on Japan-paper were issued. Although all of the prints were designed especially for this portfolio not all of them were printed in the same way; some were collotypes (photographically reproduced). Artists include George De Feure, Louis Rhead, Marcel Lenoir, Henri Meunier and Hans Christiansen and the group includes two Mucha covers.
