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'Salomé' - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne

Alfons MUCHA

"Salomé" - Lithographie originale sur Japon [...]

5 000 €

Les malheurs des immortels révélés par Max Ernst et Paul Eluard

Paul ELUARD

Les malheurs des immortels révélés par [...]

7 800 €

Grammatica hebraica et chaldaica

Pierre GUARIN

Grammatica hebraica et chaldaica

1 500 €

Le minotaure ou la halte d'Oran

Albert CAMUS

Le minotaure ou la halte d'Oran

6 800 €

Terre des hommes

Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Terre des hommes

10 000 €







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Italie circa. 1825, 11,5x16,8cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.


Silhouettes pasted on strong paper.
Probably realized in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, silhouettes in shadow were particularly popular at that time. The fascination with these shadow profiles dates back to Antiquity according to Pliny the Elder, whom he considers to be the origin of painting and sculpture in his Natural History (Book XXXV, § 151-152): By using the earth as well, the Butadès de Sicyone potter first discovered the art of modeling portraits of clay; It happened at Corinth, and he owed his invention to his daughter, who was in love with a young man; The latter setting out for the stranger, surrounded in a line the shadow of his face projected on the wall by the light of a lantern; His father applied the clay to the sketch, made a relief of it, which he set to harden in the fire with the rest of his pottery after drying it.


 

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