Eugene Grasset, The Morphine Addict, 1897, lithograph

Lot: 218

(French, 1845-1917),
La Morphiomane (The morphine addict), 1897,
lithograph and pochoir,
image: 16 x 12 inches, framed: 27.5 x 22.25 inches,
pencil signed lower right.
Eugene Grassets depiction of a woman, apparently a prostitute, injecting morphine into her leg was emblematic of the time. The artist treats the shocking subject highly aesthetically, using the two-dimensional, ornamental means of representation of Japanese printing art and Art Nouveau. Unknown collectors stamp lower left. Magnificent print with border.
Robertson 183.

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