{"id":13618,"date":"2017-03-06T13:11:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&p=13618"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:53:23","slug":"art-nouveau-insect-prints-from-insectes-e-a-seguy-mid-1920s","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/art-nouveau-insect-prints-from-insectes-e-a-seguy-mid-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Art, Natural History, Seguy Insects, Art Nouveau, French Antique Pochoir Prints, Mid 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his foreword to Insectes<\/strong>, Seguy asserted that apart from butterflies, insects had been overlooked by artists and designers. His goal was to awaken interest in the natural designs of insects — a \u201crepertoire of forms and of colors of a sumptuous richness and a surprising variety\u201d — by presenting accurate depictions of colorful tropical insect species unfamiliar to most Europeans. He posited that the modern sensibility, attuned to the beauty of a well-designed machine, might be prepared to appreciate insects as \u201cmechanical marvels in which the parts fit together with a precision, a harmony and an intelligence that emerges as soon as one looks through a magnifying glass.” The plates were intended to make imagery available to designers who otherwise lacked of access to the primary source material, which he obtained from \u201crare\u201d scientific publications and by laboriously sorting through natural history collections containing vast numbers of specimens.\u00c9mile-Alain S\u00e9guy produced eleven albums of illustrations and designs from the turn of the century to the 1930s, and his style reflected the influences of both Art Nouveau and Art Deco. His various color portfolios of visual ideas for artists and designers often featured motifs based on the natural world, including flowers, foliage, crystals and animals. Although his compositions were design oriented, he made the depictions scientifically accurate. His later works showed an increased interest in geometric and cubist designs. The prints in the portfolios were produced using the pochoir technique characterized by rich, intense color. This printing process, utilized in the early 20th century for high quality prints, involved applying colors to each plate with a number of stencils. S\u00e9guy\u2019s works include Les Fleurs et Leurs Applications Decoratives<\/strong> (1900), Samarkande \u2013 20 Compositions en Couleurs dans le Style Oriental <\/strong>(1914), Floreal<\/strong> (1920), Papillons<\/strong> (1924), Insectes<\/strong> (1924), Primavera –Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux<\/strong> (1929), Suggestions<\/strong> (1930), and Prismes – 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux<\/strong> (1931).<\/p>\n

The scholarly consensus is that E.A. S\u00e9guy\u2019s full name was \u00c9mile-Alain S\u00e9guy and he lived from 1877 to 1945. Nonetheless, in some sources he is referred to as Eug\u00e8ne-Alain rather than \u00c9mile-Alain. This was probably in mistaken reference to Eug\u00e8ne-Alain S\u00e9guy (1890-1985), a professor in entomology at Le Mus\u00e9um National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The Union List of Artist Names maintained by the Getty Research Institute lists the preferred name and spelling as “E.A. S\u00e9guy.”<\/p>\n

Collections of prints like these provided source material for designers of fabrics, wallpaper, ceramics, book illustrations, posters, and advertisements, and were popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. The leading Victorian publication of this type was Owen Jones\u2019s Grammar of Ornament<\/strong>, first issued in a folio edition in London in 1856. Other trendsetting styles in art, design, decoration and fashion in the second half of the 19th century, and early 20th century, came from Paris, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, and many such print collections were published there, including designs by Eugene Alain S\u00e9guy, \u00c9mile Belet, Ernst Haeckel, Ars\u00e8ne Herbinier, and Anton Seder, and publications by Armand Gu\u00e9rinet. Some prints were separately issued to be framed and used as decoration in their own right, though were still known in the trade to be used for design inspiration, such as works by \u00c9mile Vouga and Christine Klein. Generally the works were printed in rich colors with chromolithography. Other print techniques frequently employed include pochoir (c. 1920s, with brilliant colors), hand-colored lithographs, heliotypes, etc. To search our site for more Art Nouveau designs by such artists please type \u201cArt Nouveau\u201d or \u201cdecorative arts designs\u201d into our <\/em>search engine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt was a publisher located at 15 Rue Ernest-Cresson, Paris. The series also was published by Tolmer Editeur, 13 Quai d\u2019Danjou, Paris.<\/p>\n

Full publication information: Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt 15 Rue Ernest-Cresson, 15 Paris.<\/p>\n

Subtitle: Vingt planches en phototypie colori\u00e9es au patron donnant quatre-vingt insects et seize compositions d\u00e9coratives. [20 plates\u2026presenting 80 insects and 16 decorative compositions]<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally very good, the colors overall very bright. Usual toning, handling, and slight brittleness of paper. Some paper tones vary. Some minor general soiling, stray printer’s ink, smudges. Some edges with minor chipping, short tears, bent or creased corners, now restored and can be matted out when framed. Some with minor mat toning from former matting, can be rematted out. Please inquire as to specific condition of any print under consideration.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Breidbach, Olaf, Iren\u00e4us Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Richard Hartmann. Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel.<\/em> New York: Prestel, 1998.<\/p>\n

Nissen, Claus. Die Zoologische Buchillustration: ihre Bibliographie und Geschichte.<\/em> Stuttgart: 1969-78. 3798.<\/p>\n

Sear, Dexter. “E.A. S\u00e9guy Exhibition: 20 January – 21 March, 2003.” Lancaster University Library. 18 February 2003. http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/INFO\/LUNews.nsf\/I\/00001C1E (11 July 2003).<\/p>\n

S\u00e9guy, E.A. “Foreword” to Insectes. <\/em>Paris: Editions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, 1924.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E.A. [\u00c9mile-Alain] S\u00e9guy (1877-1945) (after)
\nInsect Prints<\/strong>
\nfrom Insectes<\/strong><\/em>
\nEditions Duchartre et Van Buggenhoudt, Paris: Mid 1920s
\nPochoir prints
\n17.5 x 12.5 inches each
\nPrices on Request<\/a><\/p>\n

Note: All 20 from the complete set are shown here. We have six in stock.
\nThose that are out of stock are indicated when you click the image.<\/em><\/p>\n

To see other S\u00e9guy prints on our site, search our site.<\/p>\n

Brilliantly and boldly colored insects from around the world are shown in interesting arrangements in pochoir prints in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco taste. The entire set is comprised of 20 plates by the French designer and author E.A. S\u00e9guy, together showing 80 insects and 16 decorative compositions. Plates 1 to 16 show five large specimens per plate in colorful arrangements, often overlapping, emphasizing colors, patterns and shapes of wings and wing veins. Among the insects illustrated are bees, wasps, cicadas, locusts, plant hoppers, grasshoppers, dragonflies, damselflies and beetles such as scarabs and longhorn beetles. The species illustrated are from all over the world: Africa, Australia, South America, Borneo, New Guinea and Southeast Asia. Plates 17 through 20 each display four designs incorporating insect-inspired patterns, which S\u00e9guy created as a demonstration of how this source material could suggest \u201cinnumerable combinations\u201d to be utilized by decorative arts designers. Also included with the set was a “Table Des Noms Scientifiques” [Table of Scientific Names], providing the species and genus names as well as the geographic regions of the species shown in Plates 1 through 16. Insectes<\/strong> and a related volume, Papillons [Butterflies]<\/strong> were both first published in 1924, and both followed the format of 16 plates of specimens followed by four of decorative designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13624,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[950,966],"product_tag":[843,3249,3248,3243,701,3245,3247,2975,1425,1472,3246,1673,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-13618","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-design","7":"product_cat-insects","8":"product_tag-art-deco","9":"product_tag-buggenhoudt","10":"product_tag-duchartre","11":"product_tag-emile-alain","12":"product_tag-history","13":"product_tag-insect","14":"product_tag-insectes","15":"product_tag-insects","16":"product_tag-natural","17":"product_tag-paris","18":"product_tag-pochoir","19":"product_tag-print","20":"product_tag-seguy","21":"post","22":"post-with-thumbnail","23":"post-with-thumbnail-large","25":"first","26":"instock","27":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16931,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13618\/revisions\/16931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13618"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13618"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}