Print by Albert Decaris: Nouveaux Méandres: L'Arc de Triomphe - Orange, represented by Childs Gallery
Albert Decaris
French (1901-1989)
Nouveaux Méandres: L’Arc de Triomphe – Orange, c. 1931
Engraving
11×7 IN.

80 in an edition of 99. Signed in pencil lower right: "Decaris"; numbered in pencil lower left: "80/99". Titled in pencil in lower left margin by Samuel Chamberlain: "L"Arc de Triomphe - Orange". Watermarks are a heart and beehive design and "Auvergne" in right margin, domed building inside oval in lower right corner of margin, and "papier a la main" along left margin. A fine impression in fine condition, printed on sheet measuring 16 x 13 1/2".
Illustrated in "Nouveaux Méandres", a travelogue and commentary on Southern French cities by author, poet, and critic, Charles Maurras (French, 1868-1952). Paris: Les Éditions du Cadran, 1931. Illustrated with 12 engravings by Albert Decaris. Decaris made outside editions in 99 signed, numbered impressions of the illustrations in "Nouveaux Méandres," to which this impression belongs.

$ 650