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Blindstamp lower right in margin
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Artist: Franz M. Melchers,
Belgian (1866-1944) |
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Item: em31
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Title: La Phalène des Iles de la Mer
(The Emerald of the Islands of the Sea) |
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Description: Cond.
A+, Original Lithograph,
issued by L'Estampe
Moderne
Issue Number 8, Dec. 1897.
Printed by F. Champenois, Paris.
Blindstamp lower right in margin.
Signed and dated 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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of Sale
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| Sheet Size: |
12 in x 16 in |
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30.5 cm x 40.5 cm |
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| Price: $375.00 USD |
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Franz M. Melchers A contributor to L'Estampe moderne, specialized
in Flemish scenes. Although he lived and worked in Belgium, Franz
M. Melchers was actually born in Munster in Germany. (Idbury Prints)

Photo identified as a 'Protestant woman from Zuid-Beveland, province
of Zeeland, The Netherlands. Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits
1905-1920. Date ca. 1905.
The New York Public Library Collection.
Mucha Cover
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.
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