Maurice ELIOT

Rare original color lithograph, executed by Maurice Eliot for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 5 published in September 1897.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, artist's signature and date in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard inscribed with the artist's name, title, a poem by Armand Sylvestre and a presentation text; and another blank tissue guard.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of ori

Rare original lithograph executed by Maurice Eliot for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 5 published in September 1897.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature and date in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the verso, pale marginal foxing.
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which, unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created spec

Edition illustrated with 14 original lithographs by Maurice Eliot and printed in 200 numbered copies on vellum.
Our copy contains a triple state of lithographs.
Handsome copy.