Arcadian Composition. by Hippolyte Petitjean, 1854-1929

Hippolyte Petitjean, 1854-1929
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Arcadian Composition.

Arcadian Composition.
Original lithograph in five colours. 1898. Drawn and printed at the studio of Clot, Paris 1898. Commissioned by Meier Graefe for the album: Pan, 1898. From the regular edition issued for Pan, 1898. Ref: Bailly-Herzberg -L'Estampe en France p.251.
Colours: yellow, blue, green, red and pink. Brilliant fresh impression with exceptional unfaded colours. On off-white chine volant paper. Excellent condition. Full margins, with the authentication text line lower left, as issued. Sheet: 14 5/8 x 10 5/8ins. Image: 10 1/8 x 7 7/8ins (260x200mm)

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The brilliant colourism in Petitjean?s work around the mid 1890?s, and so evident here, shows his close involvement at this date with Signac and Neo-Impressionism. Besides his landscape subjects however he also worked on arcadian subjects which link him with Puvis de Chavannes. Acadian Composition is one of only two known lithographs by him.