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ARTIST: ALBERT DECARIS (1901-1988) TITLE: FROM THE SAMSON AGONISTES SUITE c. 1939 This RARE ENGRAVING is HAND SIGNED & NUMBERED from the Limited Edition Suite "John Milton Samson Agonistes". This engraving is a very strong impression by WORLD RENOWNED Artist Albert Decaris (Read biography below). The suite is limited to only 55 in the world. MEDIUM: Pencil Signed & Numbered Limited Edition Engraving of ONLY 55 in the world. Since this was created in 1939, I suspect not all 55 are still in circulation making this piece even more RARE! SIZE: 15 x 22 inches unframed CONDITION: Very Good Condition. Impression is Excellent! Never Framed. SHIPPING: Buyer pays Professional Crating, Packing, SHIPPING, and Insurance. FREE SHIPPING - Note: When Free Shipping is offered - this is valid for shipments made within the continental US only! Buyer will be charged for custom crating and insurance. For international shipments, check Fed-Ex for quote or Email [email protected] Image Below is to Show Framing Presentation Only! Artwork has NOT been framed and is being offered UNFRAMED! Buy with confidence! Art4sale.com Fine Art Dealers since 1983. Swahn Galleries, ART4SALE.com Swan Swann offers European and American masters such as Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Maurice Vlaminck, Marie Laurencin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Bernard Buffet, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, Georges Rouault, Salvador Dali, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, and Henri Matisse. 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Rothe, Georges Roualt, Julien Roux, Sakata, Kenny Scharf, Dr. Seuss, Bob Shepherd, Nicola Simbari, Anton Sipos, Stan Solomon, John Stango, Itzchak Tarkay, Jiang Tiefeng, Theo Tobiasse, Victor Vasarely, Andy Warhol, Michael Wilkinson, Barrie Wentzell, Barbara Wood, Yuri Yuroz, Joanna Zjawinska, Roy Lichtenstein, and many others. Albert DECARIS (1901-1988): One of France's foremost engravers of the twentieth century, Albert Decaris is born in Normandy in Sotteville-les-Rouen in 1901. He 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 (School of Fine Arts), Paris, and studied in the studios of Carmon and Laguillermie. Within six months Decaris had won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome of engraving (1919) and became the youngest student ever to win this prestigious honor for his work 'Eve before the sin'. 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 Belgian subjects which he submitted to the Paris Salon. These works received the Salon's Medaille d'Argent (Silver Medal). 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'artistes. In the first category, he began with big engravings inspired by his classic souvenirs, mythological scenes like Leda and the Swan, The Rape of Europe, Pasiphae, etc. In the 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), Henriot's, Mythologie des Anciens Grecs et Romains (1955), Corneille's Theater (1955-1961), Emile Henriot, Les Trophees (1967) and Eschyle, Tragedies, under the direction of Mario Vincent (1975-1977). One of Decaris's greatest illustrated books is Pierre de Ronsard's, Discours des Miseres de ce Temps, which was published in Paris in 1930. Consisting of three large volumes, Decaris created forty-five engravings which were published in an edition of 359. As well, Decaris selected some of the plates to be printed separately in a limited edition of one hundred signed impressions. Such is the case with Ronsard, which probably served as the frontis-piece to the above named volume. He illustrated around 200 books, especially Ronsard, Shakespeare, La Rochefoucauld, Chateaubriand, Vigny, Montherlant, Claudel, Giono... He collaborated to the Art-Deco International Exhibition of 1937 in Paris where he realized 300 square meters of paintings and to the International Exhibition of New York in 1938 for which he did a huge painting 'The Plague'. He did huge frescoes for the monumental stairs of the City Hall of Vesoul and for other monuments, churches and chapels. Between 1935 and 1985 Albert Decaris created more than six hundred stamps for France (174) and its territories, Monaco, Andorra, Tunisia, etc. 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 an re-elected four times. In 1962 Decaris was named the official painter of the Marine Francaise (Navy). His style, ample, classic and marked with archaism of his engraving work can be also find in the severe disposition of his drawings and paintings. GOOD LUCK BIDDERS! There's Lots More to See! Click on Other Auctions Below! Best Art ** Best Value Click links for: Original Paintings   Multiple Techniques   Prints & Posters   Liquidation Specials   Other Items Certificate of Authenticity by Request Only. Click Banner Links above for More Information or for Quick Reply to Inquiries, Email ART4SALE.com. Good Luck!