Art Nouveau & Art Déco - Gallery in Monaco
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“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.
“QU’EST-CE QUE JE M’EMMERDE”
Drawing
Signed
“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.
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
“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
“HERETIQUE SUR LE BUCHER”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed lower left
48 x 32 cm.
“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
“FETE FLEURIE”, CIRCA 1900
Gouache and watercolor
41 x 29 cm.
“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
PORTRAIT OF SARAH BERNHARDT AT BELLE-ILE-SUR-MER, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Signed
36 x 22 cm.
“BRUNNHILD”, CIRCA 1900
Watercolor
Signed
28 x 20 cm.
“LA MOISSON”
Pastel on paper
Signed lower right
77 x 56 cm.
With the frame: 114 x 96 cm.
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
NAIADE
Gouache
Signed
88 x 98 cm.
Provenance
The artist’s estate
