Print 30x40 cm - Paris under the snow - Illustrated edition

Print on creative paper ready to frame
Booklet with literary extract - Pantone silver print
Format 30 x 40 cm

"Paris polar landscape
My greyhound body in the hot wind
Do you feel it as it is pink
As it is white as it is black"

Louis Aragon, "The Tower Speaks"

"The tower under construction, seen from the Trocadéro", which can be dated to the winter of 1887-1888 (very cold in Paris, with an average of 0°C), is the third of the Thirty-six views of the Eiffel Tower , developed in the form of wood engravings during the construction of the flagship monument of the Universal Exhibition, opened in May 1889. Finally executed in lithography using no less than five matrices, the series of prints in twelve colors printed at 500 copies on vellum paper was completed in 1902, seventy years after the model from which it was explicitly inspired, the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Beyond the liveliness of the line and the fidelity to the style, varying framing, focal lengths, angles of view and atmospheres, it constitutes a realistic, moving and delicately colored testimony, after countless photographic reports in black and white, on the he technical and human feat that was the construction - in two years, two months and five days - of the "beautiful accessory of Paris", as the preface to this artist's book calls it.

Publication date: 1902

Henri Rivière

Print on art paper
The history of the work in its booklet
Format 30 x 40 cm

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Co-published with the BNF (The national Library of France)
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