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EDMOND FRANÇOIS AMAN-JEAN (1858-1936)
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[TÊTE DE FEMME, DE PROFIL À GAUCHE.] Lithograph. Circa 1897.
22
1
/
4
x16
3
/
4
inches, 56
1
/
2
x42
1
/
2
cm.
Condition B+: foxing in margins and image; hand-signed and numbered 22 in pencil, from an edition of
100. Matted and framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Aman-Jean, born just outside of Paris, studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts. A French Symbolist painter,
he was part of a group of artists derisively nicknamed “Les Pompiers” (“Firefighters”) by the
Impressionists. Best known for his female portraits, he also created murals, lithographs and posters.
The style of most of his work can be identified by image-building concentric circles, but with faces
devoid of distinct outline.
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EDMOND FRANÇOIS AMAN-JEAN (1858-1936)
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[SOUS LES FLEURS.] Lithograph. 1897.
14
1
/
4
x11
1
/
4
inches, 36
1
/
4
x28
1
/
2
cm. Champenois, Paris.
Condition A. Matted and framed. Unexamined out of frame.
An expressive portrait, designed by Aman-Jean for
L’Estampe Moderne
, one of 100 plates in the series.
As described in French in the portfolio, Aman-Jean, inspired by his dreams and visions, “expresses in
allegorical, sometimes abstract formulas, an emotion of art of a very subtle and penetrating charm. He
bathes his compositions and envelops them in the gentleness of the light; he models them with tones
often a little sad, but always found in the melancholy of the subject which inspires him. The deep and
exquisite talent of Aman-Jean is above all an expertise in evoking the mistress of the feminine soul
through material beauty, and his works impress with the tuning of tones and the rhythm of the lines,
as those distant, rather vague harmonies which the reverie hears in the evening in the sleepy
countryside.” Dry stamp from
l’Estampe Moderne
in lower right margin. Lugt 2790.
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