Description
Description of Masson and Piazza's L'Estampe Moderne
These brightly colored lithographed posters are from L'Estampe Moderne published under the supervision of C. Masson and H. Piazza in Paris in 1897-1899. This famous collection included works by major art nouveau artists including Alphonse Mucha, Louis Rhead, Marcel Lenoir, Henri Boutet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edward Burne-Jones, and Théophile Steinlen. The intention of this work was to "reanimate and disseminate the taste for prints" (issue 24). Each group contains 4 or 5 individual prints along with the stunning cover with an illustration by Alphonse Mucha. Every print has the blind stamp of a woman's profile in the bottom right corner. Please see the photos below for examples of each. So popular was this collection, that even Les Maîtres de l'Affiche, another well-known poster publication, was surpassed by the beauty of L'Estampe Moderne's large format on excellent quality paper that measures ~ 12" by 16".