Mile Bernard, Composition (Morane, No. 100), Les Petites Fleurs De St. Franoise, Woodcut

Condition: Pre-Owned
Wood engraving on verg d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8125 x 9.8125 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Les Petites Fleurs de St. Franois, 1928. Published by Ambroise Vollard, diteur, Paris; printed by l'imprimerie Fquet et Baudier, under the direction of Marthe Fquet, Paris, August 27, 1928. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The Little Flowers of Saint Francis was translated from Italian by Maurice Beau-Freton, illustrated with woods drawn and engraved by mile Bernard, and published in M. CM. XXVIII, by Ambroise Vollard, 28, Rue de Martignac, 28, in Paris. Printing was finished in Paris, August 27, 1928, on Marthe Fquet's press. It was taken from this volume: CCCL examples numbered on verg d'Arches. Examples I, II, and III were watercolored by the hand of mile Bernard. XLV suites, on Japon blanc nacr, and the woodblocks destroyed. In addition, XXV Hors-commerce examples with brands from A to Y.

Catalogue raisonn references: Harscoet-Maire, L., Morane, D., mile Bernard 1868-1941: catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre grav, 2000, N. 100; Una E. Johnson Ambroise Vollard, diteur. New York, 1944, cat. N. 9; Mary Anne Stevens, Caroline Boyle-Turner, Roland Dorn, Christiaan Vogelaar Emile Bernard: 1868-1941, A Pioneer of Modern Art. Amsterdam, 1990, cat. N. 156, p. 328.

MILE HENRI BERNARD (18681941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugne Boch, and at a later time, Paul Czanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and Synthetism, two late 19th-century art movements. Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art criticism as well as art historical statements that contain first-hand information on the crucial period of modern art to which Bernard had contributed.
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