$185
L'Estampe Moderne , Numero 8, Decembre 1897, Cover, Containing Seven Prints from Different Issues. Paris: Champenois, c. 1897-1899. Original printed covers illustrated with a woodcut by Mucha for the issue described above containing seven prints produced in this series, but none of those called for on the cover of this volume, containing instead: Henri Bellery-Desfontaines's (1867-1909) L'Enigme and L'Illusion ; Louis-Auguste Girardot's (1856-1933) Femme du Riff ; Edmond Francois Aman-Jean's (1860-1953) Sous les Fleurs ; Albert Emile Artigue's (1850-1927) Albine ; Francis Jourdain's (1876-1958) Les Cygnes ; and one unidentified print showing a Dance of Death procession, with kings, beggars, clergy, and saints proceeding in a desolate landscape toward a large skull, in black and white; each print with the L'Estampe Moderne blind stamp in the corner of the sheet, paper wrappers separated into from and back, broken at spine, the prints with corners chipped, 16 x 12 in. each. (7)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-11-16