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Tête de Femme
AMAN-JEAN, Edmond Francois
Color lithograph on laid japon paper.Reference: Johnson 2. Edition of 100, but quite scarce these days. Published for "L’Album d’Estampes Originale...
View full detailsEdmond François AMAN-JEAN
Born near Paris in 1858, Edmond François Aman-Jean was a French painter, printmaker, and decorative artist associated with Symbolism and the artistic culture of the Belle Époque. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in the late 1870s, where he shared a studio and formed a lasting friendship with Georges Seurat.
In his idealized images of women, Aman-Jean animated flowing hair, flowers, and patterned fabrics with sinuous, rhythmic lines, unifying figure, pattern, and atmosphere into a single expressive composition.
Although best known as a painter and pastellist, Aman-Jean produced a small and distinguished body of color lithographs during the 1890s. His work for Ambroise Vollard placed him among the leading artists participating in the revival of original color printmaking in fin-de-siècle Paris.
Aman-Jean sustained a long career as a portraitist and mural painter, extending his lyrical visual language across both intimate works and ambitious decorative commissions. In 1923, he helped found the Salon des Tuileries, creating an important new forum for independent modern art in Paris. He died in 1936.