WILLETTE ! ORIGINAL TAPESTRY ART NOUVEAU ARTIST C. 1890 + MONTMARTRE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC MUCHA RENOIR PISSARRO + Start Price USD 25,000.00 Current Price USD 25,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, July 03, 2008 End Time Sunday, July 13, 2008 Location Laval, QUEBEC See more about 'WILLETTE ! ORIGINAL TAPESTRY ART NOUVEAU ARTIST C. 1890' Description stephanie35 Store THIS AUCTION IS AN EXCEPTIONAL UNIQUE ART NOUVEAU TAPESTRY BY ADOLPHE-LEON WILLETTE.WILLETTE is One of France's most remarkable artists of the legendary Art Nouveau era. The tapestry you are watching is an original signed by the artist.EXCEPTIONAL FOR DIFFERENT REASONS:---> MEASURES: 7.38 feet high x 2 feet large ( or 225cm x 60cm.)----> SIGNED by the artist : A. WILLETTE----> A TAPESTRY ! The artist is better known for his lithographies. Therefore this splendid tapestry should better go to a great Art Nouveau Museum.The tapestry is worn and damaged at certain places and deserves thus an excellent restoration. Nevertheless this fantastic Art Nouveau tapestry can also be put in a frame as it .   THIS TAPESTRY WAS HAND MADE WITH GOLD THREADS. ORIGINAL CREATIONS OF THE ART NOUVEAU ERA OF THIS SIZE ARE RARE.I DID NOT FIND ANY CREATION OF THE ARTIST THIS KIND IN ANY MUSEUM AROUND THE WORLD.I don't know any better place than Ebay to set this tapestry for sale.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Adolphe Leon Willette: One of France's most remarkable artists of the legendary Art Nouveau era, Adolphe Leon Willette studied art under Cabanel at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He first exhibited his art at the Paris Salon in 1881 and became a regular contributor to major French exhibitions from 1887 onwards. During the 1890's, Willette achieved great fame as a versatile lithographer, painter, illustrator, poster artist and caricaturist. He also emerged as a major writer and editor in the Leftist press. In 1906, Willette achieved the highest honor for a French artist when he was appointed Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur.He studied for four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes unnecessarily materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.He was commissioned by the prestigious L'Estampe Originale to submit lithographs in 1893, 1894 and 1895, along with such other artists as Whistler, Renoir, Redon, Toulouse-Lautrec and Pissarro. Pierrot Pendu was Willette's contribution for 1894The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi," "Pierrot," "Louison," "Bebe," and "Nox," but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, and has published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale music hall. His characteristically fantastic Parce Domine was shown in the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908. A remarkable collection of his works was exhibited in 1888. His V'almy is in the Luxembourg, Paris.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MISE AUX ENCHERES D'UNE PIECE UNIQUE: UNE TAPISSARIE ORIGINALE DE ADOLPHE-LEON WILLETTE.On ne presente pas cet artiste de renommée international. Ami de Mucha, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Pissaro, il est l'un des meilleurs noms de la période Art Nouveau en France.Cette tapisserie signée de l'auteur est exceptionnelle à plus d'un titre. D'abord les dimension:  225cm x 60cm.Ensuite l'objet lui-même: Une tapisserie! Religieuse de surcroit. On est plus habitué aux lithographies de l'artiste. Le style caractéristique de l'artiste se retrouve bien dans cette oeuvre fabuleuse. Pur style Art Nouveau, on retrouve bien sur le Visage de la Sainte-Vierge la nostalgie trait commun aux personnages représentés par le maître.Cette oeuvre unique mérite une place digne dans un grand Musée d'Art Nouveau.Quelques restauration s'avérent nécessaires. Mais ce chef-d'Oeuvre peut également se placer telquel sous verre.Je ne connais pas de meilleure place qu'Ebay pour mettre cette merveille aux enchères.Je me ferai un plasir de répondre à toutes vos questions sérieuses.La tapisserie sera envoyée dans un emballage solide, enregistrée et assurée. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to ask for any information. I'll do my best to answer you. Bid with confidence.Happy bidding!  Loulou Place a Bid!