Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Monotype and slight traces of tape

and slight traces of tape residue to margon edges from previous mount

Her mature work is distinguished by playful inventions of organic form as seen here with many later compositions based on the bilateral symmetry she observed in nature

Charcoal Drawing

on cream wove Velin Arches paper

Female Nude Seated, Hands In Hair, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Monotype and slight traces of tapeLithograph, 1897, Ed. unknown, 12 1 16 x 9 3 16, printed in a warm brown ink, and signed in pencil by Boutet. This lithograph appearred on the cover of Boutet's softbound folio "Autour d'Elles", with studies from the female nude published in Paris in 1897, edited by Paul Ollendorff with plate captions, and a preface by Georges Montorgueil. In the folio version there is additional blank space above the model where the folio title is printed in cursive.