Belle Époque elegance, Art Nouveau soul—Eugène Grasset’s floral ornaments, month by month. Frame your favorite pages after the year ends. https://bit.ly/491kaCl
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Will love be true as December frost
Or fickle and fall like the rose in June

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Our twilight month November is
The evening of the year
The brilliant summer noontide left
A pallor soft and clear

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Three luminous women drift in a dense forest of vertical trunks, their pale, translucent bodies veiled in sheer, flowing garments that skim shoulders and hips. Two figures advance in three-quarter profile while the central woman turns to look our direction. Their hair falls in soft waves and fingers curl as if feeling the air. Below them, three black wolves emerge among the trees lifting their snouts as if to scent or warn while looking directly at us. The palette sets cool, ghost-blue flesh against rusty, bark-red and umber woods. Fine linear contours, inked like filigree, sharpen the folds and foliage. Gold touches flicker along hems and highlights, giving the scene a faint, enchanted glow. French-Swiss artist Eugène Grasset, an Art Nouveau pioneer whose language of line shaped posters, book arts, and interiors, here turns decorative mastery toward Symbolist mood. The women read as archetypes: sirens or spirits, not portraits, hovering between allure and peril. The wolves double as guardians and threats, mirroring fin-de-siècle anxieties about desire, wilderness, and women’s autonomy. The vertical trees compress space like a stage flat, while the arabesque outlines and restrained tones create a tapestry-like plane; we “read” the scene as much as we see it. Gold highlights lend a religious vibe, recalling illuminated manuscripts Grasset admired, while the figures’ translucence suggests beings of prophecy or dream. Neither narrative nor moral is fixed, so beauty, instinct, and fear travel the same path through the woods. Around 1900, Grasset was at the height of his influence as an Art Nouveau designer, illustrator, and teacher in Paris. A pioneer of decorative unity, he believed design should arise from nature’s structure as expressed in his treatise “La Plante et ses applications ornementales” from 1896. Teaching at the École Estienne, he shaped a generation of artists who carried his ideals into early modernism and the emerging Art Deco style.

“Trois femmes et trois loups” (Three Women and Three Wolves) by Eugène Grasset (French-Swiss) – Watercolor with gold on paper / c. 1900 – Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #arte #artText #artwork #EugèneGrasset #Grasset #EugeneGrasset #BlueskyArt #MuseeDesArtsDecoratifs #MADParis

May, queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, what pretty music shall we charm the hours?

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This is Eugène Grasset
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Meditation (1897)
By Eugène Grasset
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💫 Eugène Grasset (French, 1841-1917). Fevrier, Calendrier de La Belle Jardinière, 1896. Woodblock print. #grasset #eugenegrasset #fevrier #february #woodblock #printmaking #gardens #gardener #jardiniere #calendar

Happy February! Bon Février!
Artist: Eugene Grasset
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Eugène Grasset, “Le perce-neige”, La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales, dessin de Maurice Pillard Verneuil. Paris, 1896

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