Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
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“PORTRAIT DE MLLE PAUL”, 1891
Pastel on wood panel
Signed and dated 1891
The frame in “bois de Sainte-Lucie” (prunus mahaleb)
With the frame: 193 x 135 cm.
Exhibition
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1892, n. 1331
Bibliography
Chantal Humbert, Les Arts Décoratifs en Lorraine de la fin du XVIIème siècle à l’ère industrielle,
les éditions de l’amateur, ill. p. 136
“FEMME A L’ENFANT AU MIROIR”
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Signed lower right
62 x 48 cm.
“L’ETOILE DES INCONNUS”, CIRCA 1900
Indian ink and color. Signed lower left and marked:
X, Etoile des inconnus ! jambes et bras ouverts, tout nus. Croix charnelle ou l’homme s’immole
26.5 x 19.3 cm.
“LA MOSELLE”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and carved frame
Signed lower right
20.5 x 32 cm.
WATERCOLOR AND INK
Signed and titled lower right CORPS DE LUMIERE, REVETANT DES AMES PURES, HARMONIES CELESTES, MAURICE CHABAS
51 x 36 cm.
“QU’EST-CE QUE JE M’EMMERDE”
Drawing
Signed
“LA VISION DU DEMON”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
34.5 x 26.5 cm.
PRESUMED PORTRAIT OF PETROVNA BLAVATSKA, 1887
Oil on canvas (relined)
Signed, dated 1887 lower right
54 x 43 cm.
“LA FEMME A LA FLEUR”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Bears a shipping label at the back evidencing a loan from Miss Morere, Paris
24.5 x 19 cm.
TEMPERA ON WOOD “OEDIPE ET LE SPHINX”, CIRCA 1910
After an ink drawing by Charles Ricketts, R.A titled “Oedipe et le Sphinx”
34 x 24 cm.
RARE LITHOGRAPH “FEMME AUX ORCHIDEES”, CIRCA 1902-1904
Colour lithograph
Signed, with the artist’s circular seal adapted from a Japanese motif
46 x 61.5 cm.
Bibliography
Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Andreas Papadakis Publisher, London, 2002, ill. p. 197-198
Manuel Orazi designed important Art Nouveau posters for La Maison Moderne, as well as for Sarah Bernhardt, the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Loïe Fuller, and the Palais de la Danse. His works in oils, gouache and watercolours were exhibited
at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1897. He also supplied illustrations for periodicals and for books. As the principal artist working for La Maison Moderne, besides a poster, he created objets d’art and jewellery
“LA TOILETTE”
Charcoal drawing
Signed lower left
60 x 45 cm.
“LES TROIS CHATS”, 1915
Charcoal, black pencil, watercolor
“OTHELLO ET DESDEMONE” ACTE III”, 1911
Watercolor
Signed, located Niciensis pinxit and dated 1911
45 x 27 cm.
“YOUNG BEAUTY WEARING ART NOUVEAU JEWELS”, 1904
Oil on board lined with canvas
Signed lower left and dated (19)04
50 x 36 cm.
“LA MORT”, BEFORE 1910
Watercolour
This is the watercolour that was used to illustrate Charles Baudelaire’s famous book Les Fleurs du Mal, engraved by Eugène Decisy and titled La Mort
“LA CONVOITISE”, CIRCA 1900
Gouache and coloured crayons
Signed and titled
32 x 24 cm.
A SYMBOLIST SCENE, CIRCA 1910
Ink, pencil, sanguine, gold highlights, varnish on paper
26.5 x 17.7 cm.
“LE VICE”, CIRCA 1900
Pencil on paper
Signed
22 x 47 cm.
“LE GRAAL”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on panel
Signed lower left
115 x 144 cm.
“L’APPARITION DU GRAAL A PERCEVAL”
Oil on panel
Signed
72 x 67 cm.
This painting depicts the moment in Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal when “The light radiates,
the Graal sets itself ablaze and a dove comes down from the dome above Parsifal.
He refuses to kiss Kundry whom remorseful falls and dies”.
“PORTRAIT OF A MODERN WOMAN”, CIRCA 1900
Oil on canvas
Original carved wood frame
73 x 60 cm.
TWO LITHOGRAPHIC POSTERS FOR THE BALLETS RUSSES AT THE MONTE-CARLO THEATER, EVENING OF 19th APRIL 1911
The first poster represents the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, dressed in a suit designed by Leon Bakst
for The Specter of the Rose
Signed
91 x 57 cm.
The second poster represents the dancer Tamara Karsavina
Signed
90 x 56.5 cm.
“HERETIQUE SUR LE BUCHER”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed lower left
48 x 32 cm.
