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 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
“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”.
“VIEUX MONSIEUR DECORE, JEUNE FEMME DEBRAILLEE”, CIRCA 1900
Lithograph on vellum
Signed with the initials of the artist and dedicated A mon ami John N… chaleureusement d.F
25.5 x 18.5 cm.
Bibliography Ian Millman, Georges de Feure, Maître du symbolisme et de l’Art Nouveau, ACR édition, Courbevoie (Paris), 1992, ill. p. 22
“DREAMS”, BEFORE 1910
Watercolour and indian ink on paper
Signed
34.5 x 23.5 cm.
This is the watercolour that was used to illustrate Charles Baudelaire’s famous book Les Fleurs du Mal by Rochegrosse
It represents the poet Baudelaire and his inspiration
“SUZANNE ET LES VIEILLARDS” TRIPTYCH, 1906
Watercolor, ink, gouache and pencil on paper
Signed, inscribed and dated lower center: GUSTAV ADOLF MOSSA NICIENSIS PINXIT MCMVI and titled below the central panel SUZANNE ET LES VIEILLARDS
36.7 x 56 cm.
Exhibition Exposition d’œuvres d’Alexis et de Gustav Adolf Mossa, L’Artistique, Nice, 1909, n. 92 Exposition d’œuvres de G.A. Mossa, Galerie George Petit, Paris, 1911, n. 21 Gustave-Adolphe Mossa. Niciensis Pinxit, Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, France, 29 January – 15 May 2022
Bibliography Un Domino, Le Gaulois, Echos de partout, 5 April 1911
Léon Riotor, Le Radical, Echos, 11 April 1911
Gustav Adolf Mossa, catalogue raisonné des œuvres “symbolistes”, Somogy éditions d’art, 2010, n. A154, ill. p. 221
Exhibition Autour de Lévy-Dhurmer/ Visionnaires et Intimistes en 1900, Grand Palais, Paris,
3 March – 30 April 1973, similar work, n. 89 in the exhibition catalogue
