[ART NOUVEAU].

Documents d'art décoratif. Trente planches en couleurs et en noire. Paris, Librairie Renourd, H. Laurens (ca 1910).

. Folio. Thirty mounted plates, of which sixteen in colour, on thick cardboard. As issued loose in original cloth-backed illustrated portfolio with cotton ties. Title page slightly browned but otherwise in excellent condition. First edition. A collection of various Art Nouveau designs for ceramics, decorative panels, furniture, silver and ironworks, jewellery, etc made by famous artists of the time, including Roubille, Brandt, Bacard, Daurat, and Ségaud. There are many textile patterns from this period that date back to earlier centuries. Some of the plates were also published in "Documents de décoration moderne" issued about 1900.

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Book number: 100760

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, art nouveau, jugend, design, exploration, france, french, decoratif, decoration, konst, art, textiles, textile,

[PéRE CASTOR]. COEUR, FERDINAND:

Quinze Jeux sur Table. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1936.

. 4to (24 x 28 cm). Pp. 16 and six coloured card board sheets (two with the cut-out parts missing). The text describes different kinds of card games. Publisher's pictorial coloured wrappers. First edition.

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Book number: 120864

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, france, french, frankrike, spel, barn, children, jeux, illustrated,

KLEEN, TYRA (Ilustrator) / SCHREINER, OLIVE:

Drömmar (Dreams). Auktoriserad öfversättning från tredje engelska upplagan. Stockholm, C & E Gernandts Förlag, 1897.

. Large 4to (30.3 x 25.5 cm). Pp. 73. With many illustrations by Tyra Kleen. Original half green cloth on paper covered boards, upper cover illustrated, Head of spine with small repair (nicely done), some light stain and discolouration to back cover. First Swedish edition, translated from English by Ingeborg Kleen (Tyra's sister). Scarce. Tyra Kleen, a Swedish author and women's rights activist who spent several years abroad. She acquired a unique artistic and continental symbolist style. She was only 22 years old when she made the illustrations for Olive Schreiner's book Dreams. The book contains eleven short stories based on the author's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. While studying in Paris, she had her first solo exhibition in 1896. She was truly a symbolist of her time and saw herself as a European artist and a vagabond rather than a Swedish artist.

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Book number: 121174

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau,

KLEEN, TYRA:

En Psykesaga. Stockholm 1902.

. 4to. Pp. (vi), 9-101. With thirty illustrations by Kleen, of which fifteen are full page including the title page. Original green cloth, printed in black on upper cover, some minor staining on covers. With inscription by the author. Old ownership stamp on free endpaper. First edition.An illustrated poetic tale filled with mythological and symbolist references. The story is a reformulation of the myth of Cupid and the Psyche, but with a new independent medium. The tale was originally written in the 2nd century AD and concerns the overcoming of obstacles to the love between Psyche (soul) and Cupid (desire) and their ultimate union in a sacred marriage. Since then, the story has been retold in drama, poetry, and opera and is widely depicted in painting, sculpture, etc. Rare.

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Book number: 121173

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, poem, poetry, literature, symbolism, sweden, swedish, illustrated, saga, mythology,

MEDGYES, LçSZLî:

Aranyfüst. Budapest, Râth M—r, 1913.

. Pp. 88, (4) including two blank leaves. With twenty full-page drawings by Medgyes. The illustrated title page and five tail-pieces are also illustrated by him. Publisher's decorated paper boards, vellum spine. First edition, limited to 250 copies. This is number 69 of 200 printed on hand made paper. Comprises twenty short stories by Medgyes together with beautiful Art Nouveau illustrations.Lâszl— Medgyes, born in 1892, was a Hungarian avant-garde artist who moved to Paris in 1920. There he provided scenic design for opera and theatre productions. He established a school "École Medgyes pour la Technique du Thêatre" together with the famous Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger. In 1925 he exhibited in New York and later worked as an interior designer throughout Europe and the US. Provenance: Rezs› Szij (1915-2006) renowned Hungarian art historian, the chief librarian of the Hungarian National Library and the founder of the Hungarian Association of Bibliophiles.

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Book number: 120499

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, hungary, hungarian, ungern, europe, european, art nouveau, illustrated, design, jugend,

MEDGYES, LçSZLî:

[HUNGARIAN AVANT-GARDE]. Figurâk. Tiz eredeti szines litogrâfia. (Figures. Ten coloured lithographs). Budapest, Dick Man—, 1917.

. A portfolio with ten coloured lithographs, each signed in pencil by the artist, and one printed title page. Protected by blue tissue paper. A few plates with trace of folding corners, some plates with staining at lower left corner, occasionally some light staining to margin. Composition size: 158 x 208 mm. Original folder with title label on upper cover, somewhat soiled, spine expertly repaired. First edition, limited to 120 copies. This is number 65 (of 85) on Holland paper.A set of attractive lithographs in Art Nouveau and Art Deco style by a celebrated Hungarian avant-garde artist. Medgyes (1892-?) was raised and educated in Budapest. He moved to Paris in the 1920s where he established a school teaching theatre scenic design. He worked throughout Europe and the States with decorative design, advertising and interior design.

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Book number: 120644

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, hungary, hungarian, ungern, art nouveau, art deco, illustrated, lithographs, avante-garde,

MUNCH, EDVARD: [EXHIBITION CATALOGUE]

Förteckning öfver Edvard Munch utställningen i Konstföreningens lokal. Stockholm, Iduns, 1894.

. Pp. 4. Original orange wrappers, light creases, small repair to lower corner of front cover. Exhibition catalogue for Munch's Stockholm exhibition in 1894. A list of sixty-nine works by topic: pictures from Paris and Berlin; portraits; interiors and landscapes; and "Studies for a series. Love" which later become known as "The Frieze of Life". This last section includes the famous "Skrik" (The Scream) which was originally executed in 1893. Edvard Munch, renowned Norwegian-born expressionist painter. 

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Book number: 121250

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, Norwegian, artist, exhibition, art, european, expressionist,

ZÜLOW, FRANZ VON:

Die 12 Monate. Originallithographien. Vienna, Druck und Verlag der Wiener Werkstätte, no date (1912).

. 4to. Comprises thirteen original colour lithographs, as issued, loose in publisher's black cloth portfolio illustrated with original lithographs by the artist on covers, abstract hand-painted front paste down and inner flaps. Housed in a specially-made chemise by Atelier Devauchelle. First edition printed in a very small number. A fine, complete set of this stunning work by Franz von Zülow comprising in total fifteen original colour lithographs; one plate for each month, one plate depicting the four seasons and two plates pasted on the covers. The fanciful lithographs have multiple pictures of people and animals placed in everyday and festive contexts depending on the month. Zülow uses a folkloristic and dynamic style with very expressive colours on a decorative flatness, influenced by the early Viennese Secession.Franz von Zülow (1883-1963) was a renowned Austrian painter, designer, graphic artist and muralist who worked at the Wiener Werkstätte from 1905 onwards and joined the Vienna Secession in 1908. The Wiener Werkstätte (1903-32) was a productive cooperative of skilled artisans (including architects, artists and designers) in Vienna dedicated to the production of modern decorative arts. The declared objective of the Wiener Werkstätte was to break through everyday life with remarkable artistic and aesthetic products. Two plates are narrowly cut but overall it's a lovely set of an impressive work of art. Rare. Ref. Heller, Die Bunte Welt, 455. Schweiger, Wiener Werkstätte, p. 185.

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Book number: 121037

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau, art nouveau, illustrated, design, artist, austria, vienna, Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna Secession, art, lithographs,