SERGE GLADKY Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives Original Art Deco 48 POCHOIR prints Second Series 1927 Start Price USD 1,800.00 Current Price USD 1,800.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location New Bedford, Massachusetts See more about 'SERGE GLADKY Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives ' Description SERGE GLADKY (1880 TO 1930?)   Original Art Deco POCHOIR prints From Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives Second Series, 1927 Paris Author: Gladky, Serge Publisher: Moreau, Charles   Paper Size: 12 ¾ inches x 6 ¾ inches Print Size: Approximately 9 ¼ inches x 6 ¾ inches Only a fraction of the ample margins are shown in the scans. Description: 4 to 48 pochoir plates depicting birds, animals, fish, insects, reptiles…..  in abstract form. 2nd Series is more interesting than the 1st Series. The portfolio cloth tie is still present. All 48 plates are very nice.   Taking his cue form nature, he rendered birds, insects, animals and plants in stylized groupings of decorative patterns.   Gladky was in illustrious company. Similar ground breaking portfolios were created by such luminaries as A. E. Seguy, E. Benedictus and Sonia Delaunay. Other than Delaunay, whose colour juxtaposition was truly inspired, Gladky’s sympathetic and innovative use of colour was among the most effective of his contemporaries.   The utilization of the Pochoir process was ideally suited to the subject matter. Indeed, our understanding and appreciation of the ART DECO print, makes it difficult to imagine this type of image executed in a format other than this most distinctive method of hand coloured stenciling.   Ironically, given the influence of his brilliant cubist inspired work, scant biographical information is available for Serge Gladky.   Working in Paris in the 1920’s, his efforts produced some of the finest modern designs in a field crowded with competitors and imitators. His reputation rests primarily with two portfolios of design, executed by pochoir in the 1920s. Nouvelles Compositions Decoratives, 1and 2.   Carrying on a tradition and a technique popularized near the end of the previous century, by such pioneers as Eugene Grasset, Gladky refined the process of pochoir and streamlined and simplified his images to a point that today his work is a most evocative example of what we now refer to as ART DECO design.   Winner Pays 16.85 for shipping Anywhere in the US includes insurance, CANADA IS $25.85 includes insurance    INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS ARE WELCOME BUT HAVE TO EMAIL ME BEFORE BIDDING WITH THIS TYPE OF ITEM I WILL ONLY SHIP EXPRESS SO IT WILL BE EXPENSIVE BUT IT WILL BE INSURED AND BE ABLE TO TRACK IT, SO IT COVERS BOTH OF US. please contact me after winning item if you will not be paying within a couple of days after the listing closes. If I havent heard from you I will send a reminder asking you to contact me and let me know something and if no response the item will be re-listed. I hate to put this in my listings but I have been getting burnt so badly lately by people winning items and not paying for them. thanks for looking and happy bidding, add me to your favorite sellers I often have rare and hard to find items. I ship items as often as I can, I always try and ship two batches of items a week, usually once at the beginning of the week and again towards the end of the week. At times my work schedule and family like with the kids and everything affects my shipping time, but if there is ever to be an abnormal delay in shipping time I will do my best to let you know :) thanks for looking and happy bidding Place a Bid!