Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet

4 French antique 19th century Racinet art design lithograph prints

1887

'Greek-Byzantine - Greco-Byzantin - Griechisch-Byzantinisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. A...

'Roman-Byzantine - Romano-Byzantin - Romisch-Byzantinisch' Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris. Alb...

Artist: Marcel Gromaire Medium: Lithograph Title: Flammes Intérieures Portfolio: Verve Vol VII No. 27-28 Year: 1952 Edition: 6000 Signed: Signed in the plate Framed Size: 22" x 18 1/...

The title of this poetic, abstract work is written across the top of the sheet. The hand-written cursive below reads: "David Shapiro / Told me he was going to / Carve his poems in stone / "That's one way to make them lost" / I don't have to / Rene Ricard". A poet, art historian and art critic, David Shapiro was friends with Ricard, and a part of the 1980's art scene in New York. Shapiro became famous briefly during the 1968 anti-Vietnam student uprising at Columbia University, when a photograph of him smoking a cigar behind the desk of the Columbia University president was published in Life magazine, and he became the face of the student protest...