Jean de Bosschere~Vintage Offset Lithograph~Signed in Plate~Rare~Matted~Free Shipping

Jean de Bosschere~Vintage Offset Lithograph~Signed in Plate~Rare~Matted~Free Shipping.

These unique color offset lithographs are gilded. In some of the close up shots you will see what looks like dust, in fact it is tiny particles of the gilding used in the lithograph. Rich colors abound in each of these works. The artworks are matted in 11 x 14 inch (standard size for framing) acid free white mats. They will be put into clear plastic bags and sealed for there protection. The offset lithographs were published in 1930 (92 years ago) by Garden City publishing company in New York for the Decameron book by Boccaccio. An informational sheet on this print and the artist will also be included. Shipping is free. Thanks for visiting!

“Jean de Bosschère (Uccle, 5 July 1878 – Châteauroux, 17 January 1953) was a Belgian writer and painter.

From 1907, he also wrote several monographs, especially on Flemish art. Two years later he published his first collection of poetry, Béâle-Gryne, which he illustrated himself. The style of these illustrations, as well as his later work, was a version of Art Nouveau heavily influenced by the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. He was also influenced by the Roman Catholic spiritual works of French poet and dramatist Paul Claudel, whom he saw lecture in 1909. That same year, he began a lifelong friendship with the Antwerp Symbolist poet Max Elskamp (of whom in 1914, he published a critical study), and in 1911, of the French writer Andre Suares.

In 1915, after the outbreak of World War I, he fled from Belgium and went to London where he met writers such as John Gould Fletcher, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, and Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and Richard Aldington. He met several London publishers for whom he illustrated numerous books in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Among the books he illustrated were the poems of Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire. He also illustrated erotic classics by Aristophanes, Ovid, Strato and Apuleius.” - From Wikipedia

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