Artist: Gustave-Max Stevens (Belgian, 1871-1946)
Title: Solveig
Plate: em36
Original Lithograph,
issued by L'Estampe Moderne
Issue Number 9, Dec. 1898.
Printed by F. Champenois, Paris.
Blindstamp lower right in margin.
Signed in the stone lower right.
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat, with framing labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat.
Certificate of Authenticity.
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Sheet Size: 12 in x 16 in 30.5 cm x 40.5 cm
Price: $375.00
Gustave-Max Stevens was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode in Belgium. He was a student of Jean Portaëls at the Brussels Beaux-Arts, and then of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-Arts, Paris. Gustave-Max Stevens exhibited at the first Salon d'Art Idéaliste in 1896, and at the Salon des Artistes Français. He won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1900. The art of Gustave-Max Stevens was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. (Idbury Prints)
Not unlike the Maitre de L'Affiche series, L'Estampe Moderne was a portfolio printed between 1897-98, published by Imprimerie Champenois, Paris, contained 24 monthly portfolios, with four original lithographs in each. Each commissioned only for this series. Some of the contributing artists included Mucha, Rhead, Meunier, Ibels, Steinlen, Willette and Grasset.