Eugène Grasset 'Les Petites Faunesses': An Art Nouveau watercolour circa 1896

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Description

'Les Petites Faunesses': An Art Nouveau watercolour
monogram 'E.G.' l.r., in a gilded frame,
image: 22.5cm. high by 16.5m. wide;
9in., 6 1/2 in.

watercolour over pen and ink, depiting two young fauns gambolling by a wooded lakeside

Exhibited

Leipzig, 1914, no.889.

Literature

A woodcut of this work is illustrated: Victor Arwas, Berthon & Grasset, Hong Kong, 1978, p.79.

Catalogue Note

The current lot is the original illustration for the poem by Pierre Loüys, Les Petites Faunesses (The Young Girl Fauns) which appeared in the first edition of 'L'Image'. It was later printed in colour using six blocks by Eugène Froment.
Images of the lot before reframing are available upon request.