Lucien Hector Monod, La Voix des Sources, 1899, Original Lithograph

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Lucien Hector Monod (1867 - 1957)

La Voix des Sources
(The Voice of the Sources)

Original Lithograph from the glorious … Read more Lucien Hector Monod (1867 - 1957)

La Voix des Sources
(The Voice of the Sources)

Original Lithograph from the glorious portfolio "L'Estampe Moderne", issue #23 (March 1899)

On wove paper

Year: 1899

Size (sheet): 305 x 405 mm
Size (image): 248 x 306 mm

Signed in the plate, bottom right

Blind stamp of the publisher, bottom right, out of the image

Excellent condition: minor signs of age
Great colours
Full margins (not cropped, not trimmed)

Same print in:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, inventory: 2014.695.ss

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About the Collection (L'Estampe Moderne)

L'Estampe Moderne appeared in 1897-1899 as a series of 24 monthly fascicles, each containing 4 original lithographs, printed by Parisian Imprimerie Champenois. Many accomplished European Art Nouveau painters contributed works to this publication, which contained only Original prints invented and produced especially for this collection. The publication was edited by Charles Masson and H. Piazza. Each issue came in a paper cover bearing an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha.
Each lithograph was accompanied by a tissue containing the details (title of the artwork, name of the artist, etc.) and a short text by a well-known author who inspired the artist (this one being by Henri de Régnier).
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About the artist

Lucien Hector Monod was a French painter, initially associated with the Symbolist movement, and also a draftsman and engraver.

The son of Gustave Louis Monod and Louise Catherine Armand-Delille, Lucien Monod came from a family of Swiss origin and of Reformed tradition, established in France since 1808. The Monod family included many pastors: Lucien was the first to devote himself to the arts. from 1886 to 1889, he attended the Académie Julian, notably the studio of Puvis de Chavannes.

from 1891, he joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1899, La Voix des sources, a lithograph based on a poem by Henri de Régnier, was published in L'Estampe moderne. He also contributed to the art magazine The Studio.

Lucien Monod is the author of a major series of studies on the print market published by the art publisher Albert Morancé from 1920 to 1931 in 9 volumes: Aide-mémoire de l'amateur et du professionnel: le prix des estampes, ancienne et moderne, prix reçues en ventes - suites et états, biographies et bibliographies. It includes, among other things, one of the first monographs on the engravings of Félix Vallotton.

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from the text on the tissue paper, by Henri de Régnier:

Me voici sur le bord de la fontaine claire
Et mes cheveux qui vont s’écrouler en arrière
Mêleront leur cascade d’or à l’eau d’argent,
Et ma poitrine, avec ses deux seins en avant,
Surgira de ma robe autour de moi tombée,
Et, debout, un instant, auprès de l’eau bordée
D’iris et de glaïeuls et de plantes flexibles,
Je me tiendrai pareille aux Nymphes invisibles
Qui hantent la forêt ou, Sirènes, la mer ;
Alors je descendrai, rose dans le flot clair
Avec sa grande ride en cercle autour de moi,
Et je te sentirai monter, ô cristal froid
Des sources, de mes jambes jusques à mon ventre
Et à mes seins et mes épaules, puis plus lente,
Rieuse et les yeux clos, je plongerai ma tête
Que tu verras parmi les herbes disparaître
Dans le remous ondé de mes grands cheveux d’or.

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Important:

. The listing is for the original print, in the above mentioned excellent condition.
. The original tissue paper introduction will be given to the buyer as a gift
. The cover by Mucha and the edition (back of the cover) are shown as a reference and proof of authenticity This piece has an attribution mark,
I am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
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