Pamono Edward Burne-Jones, Beauty, 1899, Original Lithograph> Art Nouveau

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

Beauty

Original Lithograph from the glorious portfolio “L’Estampe Moderne”, issue #22 (February 1899)

On wove paper

Year: 1899

Size (sheet): 405 x 305 mm
Size (image): 346 x 193 mm

Signed in the plate, bottom left

Blind stamp of the publisher, bottom right, out of the image

Excellent condition: minor signs of age
Great colours
Full margins (not cropped, not trimmed)

Same print in:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, inventory: 2014.695.oo

About the Collection (L’Estampe Moderne)

L’Estampe Moderne appeared in 1897-1899 as a series of 24 monthly fascicles, each containing 4 original lithographs, printed by Parisian Imprimerie Champenois. Many accomplished European Art Nouveau painters contributed works to this publication, which contained only Original prints invented and produced especially for this collection. The publication was edited by Charles Masson and H. Piazza. Each issue came in a paper cover bearing an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha.
Each lithograph was accompanied by a tissue containing the details (title of the artwork, name of the artist, etc.) and a short text by a well-known author who inspired the artist (this one being by Gabriel Mouray).
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About the artist

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (1833 – 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style and subject matter.[

Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in the design of decorative arts. His early paintings show the influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by 1870 he had developed his own style. In 1877, he exhibited eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery, a new rival to the Royal Academy of Arts. These included The Beguiling of Merlin. The timing was right and he was taken up as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement.

In the studio of Morris and Co. Burne-Jones worked as a designer of a wide range of crafts including ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, and mosaics. Among his most significant and lasting designs are those for stained glass windows the production of which was a revived craft during the 19th century. His designs are still to be found in churches across the UK, with examples in the US and Australia.

from the text on the tissue paper, by Gabriel Mouray:

Les femmes de Burne-Jones! leur ondulation captieuse, l’espèce de sensualité très douce qui incurve leur bouche, surtout le sens si profond, si mystérieux de leur regard, sous l’aile des paupières mi-bais-sées, quel poète saura le dire? Quel parfait magicien du mot évoquera leur séduction voluptueuse, cette sorte d’enlacement d’âme qu’elles semblent promettre avec leurs frêles mains et leurs cheveux de délices et malgré leurs longues robes de pureté?…… Vraiment, les paroles qui tremblent à leurs lèvres, elles vous les diront sans feintise; et ce sont, croyez-moi, de douces paroles, quoique tristes et déçues, des paroles de mansuétude, de résignation, de pitié. Elles sont plus instinctives que conscientes; elles prennent part à la vie qui s’offre comme à un festin préparé par des mains étrangères; elles ignorent les révoltes et les fiertés; elles ont de la résignation et cette mélancolie si émouvante des êtres que l’action effraye et désarme. Leur faiblesse a peur de la vie; elles osent à peine regarder le chemin de délices et de larmes par crainte de se laisser fasciner au parfum des fleurs humaines.

Important:

. The listing is for the original print, in the above mentioned very good / excellent condition.
. The original tissue paper introduction has some folds and tears, especially along the margins, and it will be given as is to the buyer as a gift for confirming the authenticity.
. The cover by Mucha is shown as a reference