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Nighttime Hospitality
MERODACK-JEANEAU, Alexis
Hospitalité de Nuit (original French title) Lithograph on tan wove paper, no date. Edition unknown, but certainly very small, if any at all was ev...
View full detailsAlexis MERODACK‑JEANEAU
Born Alexis Michel‑Louis Jeaneau (1873–1919) in Angers, the artist adopted the pseudonym Mérodack, inspired by Rosicrucian symbolism. A pupil of Gustave Moreau, he was a symbolist and early modernist who became part of a circle including Matisse, Manguin, Marquet, Lautrec, and Rousseau. Mérodack‑Jeaneau held his first solo show in Paris in 1899 at Galerie La Bodinière and later founded his own gallery Groupe d’art des Tendances nouvelles. His rare prints reflect a poetic engagement with marginalized figures and nocturnal life. His symbolist‑inflected imagery—often dreamlike and decorative—reveals a link between formal academic training and emerging modernist trends. Though his graphic works are relatively rare, they reflect a poetic engagement with marginalized figures and nocturnal life in fin-de-siècle Paris.