Read The Sun - Louis John Rhead, 1895-1900
Sold by Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Add to basketSold by Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since 19 November 2019
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Add to basket"Read The Sun", colour lithograph by Louis John Rhead, published by impremerie Chaix between 1895-1900 for their "Maîtres de l'Affiche: publication mensuelle contenant la reproduction des plus belles affiches illustrées des grands artistes, français et étrangers". Size (paper): 40 x 29 cm. The Sun was a London evening newspaper published in England between 1893 and 1906. Intended to be a literary publication and explicitly without political allegiance, it was founded and initially edited by T. P. O'Connor. The Maitres de l'Affiche series was the direct result of international interest in posters and poster artists that reached its height in the mid-1890s in Europe and America. The masterpieces of artists like Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Alphonse Mucha transformed commercial advertisements into an esteemed art form worthy of public adoration and scholarly pursuit. Along with the decade's wave of poster journals, books, and exhibitions came a serious desire to collect the artworks for personal enjoyment and study -- but the sheer size of posters made storage awkward and often times impossible. The Maitres de l'Affiche ("Masters of the Poster") series was born of this dilemma. By offering subscribers reductions of the era's most important posters, collectors and enthusiasts were able to build miniature archives of posters from around the world. The complete Maitres de l'Affiche series boasted 256 expertly produced miniature lithographic plates representing the best of the Belle Époque. During its five-year run from late 1895 to 1900 the series was hugely successful, and it continues to be popular today, offering experts and novices alike a convenient and dazzling overview of some of the finest achievements in poster art. It is not surprising that the exquisite Maitres de l'Affiche collection was the brainchild of Jules Chéret, inventor of the three-stone lithographic process and virtual founder of the modern poster. As early as the 1860s, Chéret's magnificent creations brought elegance and colour to the urban landscape of Paris and soon generated an international industry. By 1866, Chéret opened his own print shop, which would eventually become a branch of the large French publisher Imprimerie Chaix. His role as artistic director at Chaix provided Chéret with the platform and resources necessary to launch the Maitres series. The first four plates were released in December of 1895 and featured posters by Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Julius Price, and Dudley Hardy. The series would continue for a total of sixty months, ending in November of 1900 -- truly spanning the peak of the poster craze. In the end, there were a total of 240 regular plates and 16 bonus plates. The Maitres de l'Affiche series operated much like a contemporary magazine. A poster enthusiast had the option of purchasing the current month's four plates from a specialized dealer, or he could choose to subscribe to the series for the length of one year. In France, a one-year subscription cost 27,- francs, equivalent to roughly five to ten original full-sized versions of the posters highlighted in the Maitres series. The first plate of every month was a poster by Chéret himself, making him the most frequently represented artist in the series. As a matter of fact, Chéret's 60 regular and seven bonus plates comprise nearly 25-percent of the entire collection. All in all, 97 artists from around the world were represented in the Maitres de l'Affiche series, though more than half of them were French. In contrast, only four were from Italy, six from Germany and eight from England. A range of popular styles are evident in the collection, including the classic Art Nouveau of Alphonse Mucha and Privat Livemont, the illustrations of Edward Penfield and Adolphe Willette, and the graphic qualities of Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard. The original, full-sized posters and the Maitres prints they inspired were never considered in competition with one another; rather.
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