Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Monotype

Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) MonotypeLithograph, 1897, Ed. unknown, 12 1 16 x 9 3 16, printed in a warm brown ink, and signed in pencil by Boutet. This lithograph appearred on the cover of Boutet's softbound folio "Autour d'Elles", with studies from the female nude published in Paris in 1897, edited by Paul Ollendorff with plate captions, and a preface by Georges Montorgueil. In the folio version there is additional blank space above the model where the folio title is printed in cursive.

Here the bustling human prescence along the storefronts and seawall emphasize the dizzying height of the buildings which newly distinguished America's most modern of cities

the Illinois Art Project

Her mature work is distinguished by playful inventions of organic form as seen here with many later compositions based on the bilateral symmetry she observed in nature

on cream wove Velin Arches paper

on cream wove paper with large side margins

was a mystery

strongly patterned street scenes of adobe buildings with people in native dress

lithographs and color woodcuts

large and witty figure subject in color by the father of the Art Brut movement or "Raw Art"

and slight traces of tape residue to margon edges from previous mount

Charcoal Drawing

on smooth cream wove paper 12-3/16 x 9-1/16