Opium (L'opium)

1894, Emile Victor Prouvé (1858 - 1943)

lithograph in five colours on simili Japon, 62.6 cm x 42.7 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

What is it?
What can you see?
Context
printmaker
publisher
compiler album
writer preface

Object data

Object number
p1070V2000
Edition
31/100
Dimensions
62.6 cm x 42.7 cm, 56 cm x 40 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 56, Boyer & Cate 56

Inscription/label

signature and date
No. 31 - V. Prouvé 1894.
signature and date
V.P 94
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819
number
85/13

Literature

  • by Donna M. Stein and Donald H. Karshan, L' Estampe Originale : a catalogue raisonné, 1970, p. 13, 106-107, no. 56
  • Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin..., 2006, p. 54
  • Textes de Christian Debize, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Harent...[et al.], Victor Prouvé (1858-1943), 2008, p. 96, 98-99, no. 246
  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, p. 33, no. 56
  • Éd. par Valérie Thomas ; Jérôme Perrin, Blandine Otter, Camille Martin, artiste de l'École de Nancy : le sentiment de la nature, 2010, p. 46
  • Carmen Vendelin; Siobhan Conaty; Marc Moreau, Strategic ambiguity : the obscure, nebulous, and vague in symbolist prints, 2013, p. 17, 47