RANSON, Paul Elie
(b. 1864, Limoges, d. 1909, Paris)

Tiger in the Jungle

1893
Lithograph in three colours, 368 x 283 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The sinuous dragon shapes of Sino-Japanese art, whose motifs form interlinked ornamentation, were adapted here by Paul Ranson in an arabesque, Art Nouveau manner.




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