By Paul Jouve
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Judgement de Paris ouf famille singe
Lithograph, 1897
Signed and dated in the stone lower right (see photo)
Published in L’Estampe Moderne with their blindstamp lower right corner, Lugt 2790 (see photo)
Edition 2000
Printed by Chapenois, Paris
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 12 x 15 3/4 inches
Paul Jouve (1878-1973)
Paul Jouve was two years old when his father set up his ceramist workshop on Boulevard Saint Jacques in Paris. It is in this artistic universe that he grew up playing with colors, modeling the earth, pampered by his young mother, who dreamed of making a teacher of her. Very early on, his father, seeing his passion for drawing, encouraged him, introduced him to the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed a passion for the big cats that he practiced drawing.
For the Universal Exhibition of 1900, the architect Binet, commissioned a frieze of wild animals of more than 100m representing tigers, bears, lions, bulls, and mouflons. This frieze will be executed in greenish brown glazed flamed sandstone by the sculptor Alexandre Bigot. Binet also ordered four lions from him to decorate the main gate of the Champs Elysees, between the two palaces, and a monumental statue representing a rooster wings outstretched in the center of the gate.
In 1907, Jouve was awarded a scholarship from the General Government of Algeria, and along with Léon Cauvy...
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1890s Art Nouveau Pierre-Paul Jouve Art