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Art-Deco: Renaud et Armide. 1935 by Joseph Hemard.
France\'s most irrepressible comic illustrator, Joseph Hemard, turns his eye to the great love stories of the Western imagination — and nobody comes off well. Hémard was the man who once illustrated the French Tax Code with equal parts wit and subversion. Here he applies the same unsentimental eye to the power couples of antiquity.
Renaud stands in the enchanted garden holding a rose — fully costumed, sword still at his hip, apparently unaware that arriving at a sorceress\'s garden and picking flowers is not the behavior of a man on Crusade. Armide reclines nude on her bench, pearl-adorned, looking with the calm delight of a woman whose enchantment has worked so completely she no longer needs to supervise it. Tasso\'s epic of duty versus desire, at the moment when desire has stopped even trying to hide its score.The pochoir colors — hand-applied through stencil by the atelier of master artisan Eugène Charpentier — remain vivid nine decades later.
- Pochoir from 1935 on vélin de cuve paper.
- 6.5 x 9 inches (entire sheet).In fresh white, acid-free 8 x 10 mat, ready to drop into your standard 8 x 10 inch frame
- From a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies. Photos of the edition number and colophon are for informational purposes and are not included in the sale.
- Ships flat in rigid mailer and archival sleeve between rigid stiffeners.
