David Byrd

Follies

1971

A set of 8 erotic early 20th Century wood engravings on arches paper, a limited edition, number 241 of 1000, by Andre Rouveyre. Produced by Kauffmann on...

Artist Unknown "Fashionable Dress, 145" 1914 Etching

Artist Unknown "Fashionable Dress, 141" 1914 Etching

Medium: embossed engraving. Printed in 1897 and published in London for The Studio. Image size: 5 x 3 3/8 inches (130 x 85 mm). Sheet size: 11 x 7 5/8 inches (282 x 193 mm). This imp...

Stipple point etching on tissue-thin handmade Japon paper, 7 5/8 x 5 inches (193 x 126 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed and numbered 10/25 in pencil, lower margin....

Beautiful poster from 1899 to promote the Salon des cent (also called "Salon des 100" or "Salon de La Plume") which was a French art exhibition. Conceived by Léon Deschamps, it was ...

Original vintage poster made around 1900 to promote Veuve Amiot champagne on the Chinese market. It was Elisa Amiot who founded the Veuve Amiot house in 1...

Beautiful poster by Jules Chéret in 1895. One of the many products promoted by Chéret's cheerful redhead was Quinquina Dubonnet, a fortified wine made from herbs mixed with quinine....

Paul Emile Berthon ( 1872- 1909 ), was a French decorative artist. He began studying painting in Villefranche. From 1893, he moved to Paris, where he attended the École normale d'enseignement du dessin. Among the courses taken at the time, those of the professor of decorative art Eugène Grasset had the greatest impact on him. The first works of Paul Berthon (around 1896) show a style close to that of Grasset. By freeing himself from the style of his master, his own style develops based on a palette of autumnal pastels with sharp lines and contours. This is his most famous lithograph, a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of "La Princesse Lointaine...

Art nouveau style poster from the beginning of the 20th century presenting Le Bruyant Alexandre in his realistic cabaret printed by the Thill printing ho...