Lithography Elegant Art Deco Woman Aleksander Rzewuski Russian Polish 1920s

  

Beautiful color lithograph on paper. Description: portrait of elegant young woman in a landscape pushing a bird. Technique: lithography heightened with gold and silver at the cap and mantle.

Format: 18.2 x 13.6 cm image 28.2 x 21 cm sheet. Signature: Luvre is signed lower right.

State of conservation: good condition, folds, tears at the ends of the sheet (see photos). Ruined by the Bolshevik revolution, he arrived in Paris with only a few thousand francs in his pocket. In less than eight years and with his talent alone, he remade fortunes, becoming an illustrator sought by leading magazines of his time (The Tatler, Femina, the Gazette of fashion), drawing inspiration from the fashion for Russian ballet at its peak. It is also a portrait painter who happens to be the artist most expensive in the world. The most beautiful women in Paris, in London or in the United States, their portrait commandent¬ him, however, that this giant walking his monocle and his silhouette of dandy in Paris of the Roaring Twenties, beef roof Russian boxes the fashion. Around him throng misia serves vine pougy dolly Radziwi, coco chanel, bonus Castellane, Felix Yusupov and the Grand Dukes exiles in a cosmopolitan Paris where everything is an excuse to party. Passage Americans and wealthy English incense Rzewuski: Douglas Fairbanks to midvani of pola negri to Ida Rubinstein, through Lady Cunard or Diana Mitford, and the young artistic creation, Diaghilev to Tchelitchew from Nabokov to bérard to cocteau to jean hugo. Yet everything will end in a few months after meeting Jacques Maritain. It is a choice of life, radical, which then starts to alex-Ceslas Rzewuski \The item \The seller is \This article can be shipped worldwide.

1. authenticity: original <\/ li>
2. Features: Signed <\/ li>
3. Type: lithography <\/ li>
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5. type: art deco <\/ li>
6. Support: paper <\/ li>
7. Theme: Portrait, Self-Portrait <\/ li> <\/ Ul>