Art Nouveau and Art Deco Prints 

Panteek Antique Prints presents this selection of Art Nouveau and Art Deco prints from 1890 to 1940.  Art Nouveau print feature flowing natural designs and in the so called “forgotten years” of the 1920’s the art evokes the whole gamut of that fabulously creative era in France, from the Impressionists and the Fauves to the Cubists, Belle Époque, Art Nouveau & Deco periods.

The extravagantly vivid colors of the prints were from the “pochoir” process, wherein single layers of color were added by hand to a lithograph using a stencil, in a precursor of the silk screening technique which is now widely used for art prints.

Featured are the Bon Ton Gazette, full of French fashion prints and the precursor to Vogue magazine, Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costumes Parisiens, La Guirlande Album Mensuel d'Art, George Barbier’s Falbalas and Fanfreluches and Feminine Toilettes and Knick-Knacks of the Romantic Age.

Pochoir prints of flowers and animals include Jeannie Foord Decorative Flower Studies, Eugene Grasset La Plante, L'Animal dans la Decoration by Verneuil among others.