Carlos, Charles Schwabe

Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne) Two designs for a book cover: A floral design representing the Passion of Christ; and The Madonna and Child the second design signed and dated 'CARLOS SCHWABE ' pencil, pen and black ink, bodycolour, watercolor, heightened with gold 13¼ x 10¼ in. (33.6 x 26.1 cm.) a pair (2) A private European collection, from the early 1900s, and by descent; Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1982, lot 153. Anonymous sale; Phillips, London, 10 September 1984, lot 236. J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe: Symboliste et visionnaire, Paris, 1994, p. 100, illus. According to Jumeau-Lafond these two drawings, designed along with a leather folio (now lost), were executed by Schwabe at the request of a patron who owned a series of Schwabe's original watercolors for Catulle Mendès's book L'Evangile de l'enfance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ selon Saint Pierre (1894), and wished to find an appropriate form of protection and display for the series.

Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Avon, Seine-et-Marne) Allegorical figures: A woman standing on a globe, reaching for the stars; and A woman with bound hands wearing a Phrygian cap the second signed and dated '1908 CARLOS SCHWABE' pencil, pen and black ink, heightened with gold, one inscribed in a shaped arch, both with pencil framing lines and added sections of paper in the cartouches 12¼ x 9¾ in. (31.1 x 23.8 cm.) a pair (2) Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1984, lots 403 (Woman standing on a globe) and 406 (Woman with bound hands). with the Fine Art Society, London. Although it has not yet been possible definitively to link these studies to a project, the date suggests that they could be related to Schwabe's illustrations for F. Lamennais's Paroles d'un croyant, published in that year. A similar figure of a woman seen against stars appears in the vignette for Chapter XII (see J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe: symboliste et visionnaire, Paris, 1994, p. 140, illustrated).

Charles Pierre Baudelaire and Carlos Schwabe Charles Baudélaire: Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris: Charles Meunier 1900. 4to. Complete with 13 vignettes and 10 plates by Schwabe. All made as handcoloured etchings + An extra suite b/w illustrations, engraved by L. Robin, M. Massé and M. Rapine. Bound with orig. wrappers with orig. engraved woodcuts by P. Delange printed in 2 states (colour and b/w). Old book plate on inner end paper. Bound in full marbled and polished morocco with inlays. Limited edition published for private subscribers in 77 copies, this #17 on vélin du Marais à filigrane spécial. One of the most important poetic works of the 19th century is Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal", which has been illustrated a number of times. The Swiss painter and printmaker Schwabe, was active in Symbolist circles and won favour as an illustrator of mystical religious themes. His highly refined drawings and watercolours accompany modern classics such as "Le Rêve" by Emile Zola (published 1892), Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" (1900), Maeterlinck's "Pelléas et Mélisande", Catulle Mendes's "L'Evangile de l'enfance de notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ selon Saint Pierre" (1900) and Albert Samain's "Jardin de l'Infante" (1908). Luxurious editions of his coloured etchings, woodcuts and lithographs, created for bibliophiles, were exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1897.

Carloz Schwabe Guillaume Lekeu poster 41 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Estimate $ 500-700 surface dirt, time fading, not examined out of frame, creases fromfolding at verticle center, horizontal center, and horizontalquater points, two holes at upper most central fold crease,abrasion and slight tear above "1899," slight buckling at bottomedge. Frame: 43 1/8 x 32 3/8 inches.

Carlos Schwabe (Altona 1866-1926 Paris) Silence Interieur signed and dated 'Carlos Schwabe 1908' (lower right) pastel on paper 39 x 25½ in. (99 x 64.8 cm.) Provenance Private collection, New York. Private collection, San Francisco. with Barry Friedman Ltd., New York. Literature J.-D. Jumeau-Lafond, Carlos Schwabe: Symboliste et visionnaire,Paris, 1994, pp. 134-135. Exhibited Barry Friedman, Ltd., New York, Visions and Reveries: SymbolistWorks on Paper, 14 April-22 May 1982, no. 58.