SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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BENEDICTUS, Edouard.
Nouvelles Variations.

"Nouvelles Variations" was an album of designs for textiles and wallpapers. As published, it consisted of 20 plates illustrating 75 motifs. Plates were originally issued loose in a cloth backed yellow board portfolio with title information in brown lettering and pochoir-colored illustration tipped onto the front cover.

Published
Paris: Editions, Albert Levy [1928].
Plates
20
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
0-5000
Published
Paris: Editions, Albert Levy [1928].
Ref
1554

Complete set of 75 Art Deco decorative designs on 20 folio-sized plates, all highly coloured pochoir plates loose in a portfolio. In good condition. Benedictus (1878-1930) is one of the most popular artists in stencil printing in abstract and floral deco art. His reputation was made especially on the collections "variations" printed with the stencil thanks to the competence of the printer J. Saudé. These collections follow the practice established by previous decorators in such folios. They have several patterns that may be suitable for woven or printed clothing and upholstery or even for printed papers, Painted and decorative paintings. Several of these patterns are grouped on one page, each designed in warm colors. The resulting page is the result of twenty different prints in different inks. Such laborious work and the cost of the pigments employed and the metallic elements made such productions extremely costly in their time. The plates are untitled. Coloured plates in order: 1. Plate 1. 2. Plate 2. 3. Plate 3. 4. Plate 4. 5. Plate 5. 6. Plate 6. 7. Plate 7. 8. Plate 8. 9. Plate 9. 10. Plate 10. 11. Plate 11. 12. Plate 12. 13. Plate 13. 14. Plate 14. 15. Plate 15. 16. Plate 16. 17. Plate 17. 18. Plate 18. 19. Plate 19. 20. Plate 20.