Description: A gorgeous soft ground etching and color aquatint by Antoine Calbet (1860-1944). A charmingly erotic Art Deco Orientalist depiction of two female nudes at the bath of a seraglio. It is pencil signed by the artist in the lower right and numbered in the lower left margin next to the blindstamp of the Estampe Moderne, the top of the plate shows the publisher as Octave Bernard, l'Estampe Moderne, a respected Paris art publisher. Good sized, the plate measures 10 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches, the full sheet is 14 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches. It is printed on cream colored vellum paper, aside from some tape residue along the reverse top edge, the print is in excellent condition. Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) studied with Alexandre Cabanel, Edouard Antoine Marsal and Emile-François Michel, he first exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1880 and continued to take part in the Paris Salons until 1940. Calbet had a talent for aquatints of languid female nudes, but is best known today for his book illustrations. An exhibition of Calbet’s drawings and watercolors was held at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1909, and another at the Galerie Graat in Paris in 1932.
Price: 145 USD
Location: Spring Hill, Florida
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Artist: Antoine Calbet
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Signed: Yes
Color: Multi-Color
Period: Art Deco (1920-1940)
Material: Etching, Ink, Paper
Region of Origin: Europe
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Women
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1920s
Style: Art Deco, Orientalism
Theme: Liesure, Eroticism
Features: Signed, Limited Edition, Numbered
Production Technique: Etching
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Culture: French
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
