European Graphic Arts

This section will illlustrate some of the artistic movements from the end of the 19th century. 

The Chat Noir image and its many iterations, French ephemera (Menus, Sheet music, advertisements, theater programs, etc.), Japonisme, and Austrian and German Secession imagery.

Pierre Bonnard, La femme au parapluie, 1894. Lithograph in two colors.

Maximillian Kurzweil, Der polster, 1903. Color woodcut.

Jules Chadel, Menu pour Madame Chanel, 1922. Dinner, woodcut in colors with printed letterpress.

Georges Auriol, Schéhérazade, 1901. Published by Art & Decoration. Imprimé: Eugène Verneau.