Sylvain Sauvage "venise" Rare Original Etching 1926 Signed & Numbered Haasen

Sylvain SAUVAGE - Elegant Venetian woman and gondolier

Original oval etching in colors signed and numbered "41" in pencil, presented in a gilt frame.

Condition: Pale foxing in the margins, small dents in the gilt frame (see last photo).

Dimensions of the margins (at sight): 345 x 280 mm.
Sight dimensions: 290 x 220 mm.

Original etching "published by the company Les Graveurs Modernes, 194 rue de Rivoli, Paris, 1926" (printed mention at the top left) - "Copyright 1926 by Les Graveurs Modernes, Paris" (printed mention at the top right).

The print, on the theme of Venice, in the Art Deco style, is reminiscent of the superb illustrations in the book "Une aventure de Casanova" published the same year by the author

According to Bernard Saugier in the book "Sylvain Sauvage, journey to the Literary Country of an illustrator", at the author, 2014, page 156: "A series of large color prints belongs to 1926 (...) They come out of Haasen's workshop (. ..) The print run is still 350 copies."

"Félix Roy, known as Sylvain Sauvage (born in Baume-les-Messieurs (Jura) on May 8, 1888 and died in Paris in January 1948) was a French illustrator and book technician. He was an exhibitor at the Salon des artistes décorateurs and director of the École Estienne. He has illustrated numerous works". (Source Wikipedia).