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"Bénédictine" Original 1898 Lithograph, Alphonse Mucha
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
Published by F. Champenois, Paris.
"Bénédictine shows two girls pressing flowers amid book leaves, to remind us of the herbs that go into making the liqueur; the bottom part of the poster has a panorama of the Fecamp Abbey where the drink originated. Around 1510, one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, prepared a liqueur using local wine and native herbs found in nearby woods, together with a few imported ingredients including muscat, ginger, clove and cardamom" (Wine Spectator, 70).
As with all poster this size, the lithograph was made, in color, on two panels and joined at the center.
Alphonse Mucha was a painter and decorative artist best known for the sensual Art...
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Wolf Moon
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Revealed
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Stoneware
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
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Stoneware
Agony & Ecstasy
Located in Chicago, IL
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Roots, Opus I
By Eric Serritella
Located in Chicago, IL
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
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Stoneware
Spirited (teapot)
By Eric Serritella
Located in Chicago, IL
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Remnants
By Eric Serritella
Located in Chicago, IL
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
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Stoneware
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By Eric Serritella
Located in Chicago, IL
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By Eric Serritella
Located in Chicago, IL
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
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Reverie Charger by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer for Clement Massier
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Located in Chicago, IL
Known today as a Symbolist painter, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer made an unforgettable impact on France's ceramic revolution through his work with Clément Massier in Golfe-Juan between 1887 a...
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Bohemian Flux Vase
Located in Chicago, IL
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Disposition XXX
By J Louis
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Arrangement XVII, Realist Oil Painting
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Female Relief Plaque
By Henri Cros
Located in Chicago, IL
HENRI CROS (1840-1907) Female Relief Plaque, polychrome enameled stoneware, c. 1895; signed in black ink verso: “H. Cros”, and a scrap of paper from A.A. Hebrard, Paris attached verso; measuring h: 11.25 x w: 9.38 inches. The symbolist bust in relief of a nude young woman with strawberry blonde hair is a depiction of pensive reverie. With lips slightly pursed, she is lost in thought, looking inward. The female visage hovering just over the nude’s shoulder, perhaps an allusion to a fountain, is by contrast flat and lifeless. With lips parted to reveal a watery blue orifice and wavy tresses of hair blending into a watery expanse, the purely decorative nature of the fountain’s face...
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Kostume, Plakate, und Dekorationen, "Lo Hesse"
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell of the Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s colorful and sensuous posters depicting theatrical and decadent subjects. Schnackenberg became a regular contributor of similar compositions to the German magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus before devoting himself to the design of stage scenery and costumes. In the artist’s theatrical work, his mastery of form, ornamentation, and Orientalism became increasingly evident. He excelled at combining fluid Art Nouveau outlines, with spiky Expressionist passages, and the postures and patterns of the mysterious East.
In his later years, Schnackenberg explored the unconscious, using surreal subject matter and paler colors that plainly portrayed dreams and visions, some imbued with political connotations. His drawings, illustrations, folio prints, and posters are highly sought today for their exceedingly imaginative qualities, enchanting subject matter, and arresting use of color.
SCHNACKENBERG: KOSTUME, PLAKATE UND DEKORATIONEN, a cardboard bound art book consisting of 43 prints of work by Walter Schnackenberg, 30 of which are color lithographs that are signed and some are titled and dated in the plate, as well as black and white prints and photographs with accompanying text by Oskar Bie; lithographs printed at Kunstanstalt Oskar Consee in Munich, other images printed by Gesellschaft Pick & Co. in Munich, the text and cover with color images by Schnackenberg front and verso printed by R. Oldenbourg in Munich; published by Musarion Verlag, Munich, 1920.
The majority of Walter Schnackenberg’s artistic output was destroyed by bomb attacks in Munich in 1944. The highly publicized 2013 auction in New York of the recovered pre-war poster collection once belonging to German poster aficionado, Hans Sachs...
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Ballet und Pantomime "Maskerade", plate #9.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
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Ballet und Pantomime "Scherzo I", plate #4.
By Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
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