{"id":13703,"date":"2017-03-06T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&p=13703"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:19:52","slug":"art-nouveau-butterfly-prints-from-papillons-e-a-seguy-mid-1920s","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/art-nouveau-butterfly-prints-from-papillons-e-a-seguy-mid-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Art, Natural History, Seguy Butterflies, Papillons, Art Nouveau, French Antique Pochoir Prints, Mid 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his foreword to Papillons<\/strong>, S\u00e9guy describes the prints as “un monde somptueux de formes et de couleurs” — a world of sumptuous forms and colors. He explains that they are intended to provide a record of rare, exotic specimens from museums and private collections, within an aesthetic context, thereby making them more widely accessible as inspiration for decorative arts designers. Nonetheless, S\u00e9guy based his images of butterflies and insects on illustrations in scientific publications, thereby maintaining scientific accuracy. They were enlarged up to 10 to 15 times to reveal intricacies of their design not visible without magnification. Also included with the set was a Table Des Noms Scientifiques [Table of Scientific Names]<\/strong>, providing the technical species and genus names as well as the countries or regions of habitat for the species shown in Plates 1 through 16.<\/p>\n

\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

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. 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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E.A. [\u00c9mile-Alain] S\u00e9guy (1877-1945) (after)
\nButterfly Prints<\/strong>
\nfrom Papillons<\/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. Our stock is constantly changing.
\nPlease inquire<\/a> as to current selection.<\/em> To see other S\u00e9guy prints on our site, search our site.<\/p>\n

Brilliantly and boldly colored butterflies from around the world are shown in interesting arrangements in pochoir prints from a set of 20 by the French designer and author \u00c9mile-Alain S\u00e9guy, generally known as E.A. S\u00e9guy. Plates 1 to 16 show large specimens in colorful arrangements, often overlapping, emphasizing colors, and patterns and shapes of wings and wing veins. Plates 17 through 20 are composite uses of butterfly patterns, in geometric boxes, like fabric or wallpaper designs. Papillons<\/strong> and a related volume, Insectes<\/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

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