Albert Decaris

The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele

Albert Decaris' The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele is an original drypoint engraving created between 1930 and 1940. This impression is printed upon pure rag paper with the 'Combourg' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published in Paris in the limited edition of thirty impressions. It is signed and numbered, in pencil by Decaris along the lower margin. The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele stands as a fine original example of the engraved art by the French artist, Albert Decaris.

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Albert Decaris (Sotteville-les-Rouen, 1901 - Paris, 1988)
#	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01.-	Ronsard by Albert Decaris	Original Engraving	1930	Signed, titled and numbered, '2/100', in pencil by Albert Decaris along the lower margin.	Available
02.-	The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele by Albert Decaris	Original Drypoint Engraving	c. 1930 - 1940	Signed and numbered, '16/30', in pencil by Albert Decaris along the lower margin.	Sold

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Title:	The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele
Artist:	Decaris, Albert (Sotteville-les-Rouen, 1901 - Paris, 1988)
Date:	c. 1930 - 1940
Medium:	Original Drypoint Engraving
Note:	"Decaris's approach is direct, unhesitating. Once the vision of what he desires is fully imprinted on his mind, he is not hindered by details, by technical difficulties, gaping crowds, sweltering studios. The accomplishments of pushing delicate ravines through a copper plate with a burin, of biting impossibly rich blacks with nitric acid, of spreading sepia washes which dry with miraculous effect, all of these he takes for granted and promptly forgets." *
	One of France's foremost engravers of the twentieth century, Albert Decaris began his formal art studies at the age of fourteen at the Ecole Estienne. Four years later he was accepted into the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied in the studios of Carmon and Laguillermie. Within six months Decaris had won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome and became the youngest student ever to win this prestigious honor.
	Decaris thus journeyed to Rome where he worked and lived at the Villa Medici. Unfortunately he contacted malaria on a journey to Paestum and was critically ill for a period of one year. Upon his recovery Albert Decaris was 'rewarded' with a two year mandatory service in the French military. After this he concluded his fellowship in Rome and then returned to Paris. He first worked upon a series of engravings of Beligian subjects which he submitted to the Paris Salon. These works received the Salon's Medaille d'Argent. It was the first time in the Salon's long history that an artist had received this major medal with his premiere presentation.
	During the following years Albert Decaris created a major oeuvre of original engravings and etchings, both as individual plates and as illustrations for livres d'artiste. In this latter category he illustrated such magnificent books as Shakespeare's, Macbeth (1930), Cathlin's, Le Sommeil d'Endymion (1934), Milton's, Samson Agonistes (1939), Chenier's, Eglogues (1945), Heriot's, Mythologie des Anciens Grecs et Romains (1955), Emile Henriot, Les Trophees (1967) and Eschyle, Tragedies sous la Direction de Mario Vincent (1975-1977).
	Between 1935 and 1985 Albert Decaris created more than six hundred stamps for France and its territories. Held in equally high esteem for his architectural, historical, landscape, portrait and figurative engravings, he became a full member of the Academie des Beaux-arts in 1943 and was nominated its President in 1960. In 1962 Decaris was named the official painter of the Marine Francaise.
	The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele was published as an individual engraving in a small, limited edition of thirty signed impressions. Composed entirely of both rapid and deeply printed engraved lines it is surely one of this master's most accomplished landscape compositions.
Edition:	Limited edition of thirty impressions, numbered 16/30.
Reference:	* Samuel Chamberlain, “Decaris, Master of Black and White”, W. P. Truesdell, ed., The Print Connoisseur, Vol. X, No. 3, July 1930, Champlain, NY, pp. 221 - 242. Quotation taken from p. 226.
Size:	10 1/8 X 7 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon pure rag paper with the 'Combourg' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published in Paris in the limited edition of 30 impressions. Signed and numbered, '16/30', in pencil along the lower margin. A brilliantly printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. The First Glimpse of Mont St. Michele represents a both a prime and scarce example of the famous engraved art of Albert Decaris.
Price:	Sold - The price is no longer available.
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