{"product_id":"images-13-portfolio","title":"IMAGES #13 Portfolio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe centerpiece of the final issue of \u003cem\u003eImages Magazine \u003c\/em\u003ewas eight gorgeous Art Nouveau plates restored from an 1899 issue of the French art magazine, \u003cem\u003eFigaro Illustré\u003c\/em\u003e. This portfolio reproduces those five-color plates (including gold), on heavy stock, presented in an illustrated and hand-numbered envelope. They appear in \u003cem\u003eImages #13 \u003c\/em\u003ebut are reproduced across double-pages, i.e. across a fold. The subjects here feature beautiful women and highly ornate borders and designs.\n\nLouis Chalon, 1866-1940, was born in Paris and studied with Jules Lefevre and Boulanger. He exhibited vast classically inspired paintings in the Salons of the Societe de Artistes Francais where he was awarded Honorable Mention in 1885 and 1898, a Third Class Medal in 1891 and Honorable Mention at the Expositions Universelles of 1889 and 1900. He supplied many illustrations to the periodicals \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne, L'Illustration\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFigaro Illustré\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as illustrating several books, including works by Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Balzac.\n\nChalon also worked as a goldsmith and silversmith and executed sumptuous costumes. While experimenting with wax figures in 1898 (the year these plates appeared in \u003cem\u003eFigaro\u003c\/em\u003e), he discovered the pleasures of sculpture, to which he was to devote much of the rest of his life.\n\nThe first and fourth scan here show some but not all of two plates--these pictures are too big and too detailed to do them justice. So the second and third scans are details, in this case just the corner of two of the plates. The ornate, Art Nouveau detail on these is just phenomenal. Click on each one to get a larger size image.\n\nThis was produced as a special Kickstarter project because of the success of the funding for \u003cem\u003eImages #13. \u003c\/em\u003eNumbers 1 to 150 were numbered \u003cstrong\u003eand\u003c\/strong\u003e signed by the publisher, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr., while #151 to 250 was exactly the same, just not signed. Hand-numbered on the envelope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59639582032158,"sku":"IMAPT","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/product_i_m_imapt_5.jpg?v=1784467813","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/images-13-portfolio","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}