Manuel ROBBE - Menuet d’automne, 1898 - Lithograph
Menuet d'automne, 1898
Lithograph on wove paper.
Signed on the plate lower left.
L'Estampe Moderne's blind stamp on the bottom right corner.
Dimensions:
+Size of the sheet : 40,5 x 30,2 cm / 15,9 x 11,8 in.
+Size of the image : 33 x 24 cm / 13 x 9,4 in.
Condition: In overall good condition with soft handling creases and some minor stains in the margins. Two minor defects in the lower margin. Image very clean otherwise. Tipped-on paper.
Issued from the famous set « L' Estampe Moderne ».
Published by Masson & Piazza, Paris.
Not unlike the Maitres de L'Affiche series, L'Estampe Moderne was a portfolio printed between 1897-99, published by Imprimerie Champenois, Paris, contained 24 monthly portfolios, with four original lithographs in each. Each was commissioned only for this series.
As well as Mucha, some of the contributing artists included Rhead, Meunier, Ibels, Steinlen, Willette and Grasset.
Manuel Robbe :
(1872-1936) is a french painter and engraver. During WWI, he was signing his works with the pseudonym «Laffitte». After highschool, he studied at the Académie Julian, and then at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris. He rapidly became an accomplished engraver, specializing in the aquatint technique. He regularly exhibited at the Salons de la Société des artistes français. Parisian Art dealers like Edmond Sagot, Georges Petit and Pierrefort edited and distributed his engraved works. In 1900, during the Universal Exhibition, his work "L'été" (Summer) was awarded with a bronze medal. Manuel Robbe produced a lot of aquatints, drypoint engravings, etchings, a few advertisements and numerous one of a kind works (oil on canvas, watercolors or pastels). During WWI, he enrolled in the aviation as a pilot, and was awarded the croix de guerre (war cross) for his heroic actions.
His works are witnessing in a moving way the life of women and men of his time.
Manuel Robbe loved traveling. He had a true attachment to Brittany, which he depicted on numerous occasions. Suffering from an incurable illness, he died in 1936.
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