Rifat OKTAY

Rare original color lithograph, executed by Paul Leroy for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 16 published in August 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, laid paper mounted on Japan paper, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered luxury edition stamp on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard inscribed with the artist's name, title, and a poem, traces of folds.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from Contes persans by Rifat Oktay, reproduced on the tissue guard of the print.
Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and Apri

Rare original lithograph, executed by Paul Leroy for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 16 published in August 1898.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on wide-margined China, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with on the verso the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing, pale marginal foxing.
Lithograph inspired by an extract from the Contes persans by Rifat Oktay.
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'Affi