Paul Berthon — L'Ermitage (1897) | Art Nouveau Poster Print

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Paul Berthon — L'Ermitage (1897) | Art Nouveau Poster PrintPaul Berthon (18721909) was a French Art Nouveau poster artist who trained under Eugne Grasset and exhibited at the Salon des Cent alongside Mucha and Toulouse Lautrec. His posters are distinguished by a delicate naturalism lilies, flowing hair, and feminine silhouettes rendered in soft tonal gradations that feel closer to painting than print. Though he died young and his output was small, Berthon's work is among the most sought after of the entire

His work embodies the Art Deco ideal of stylised sophistication

developing compositions of interlocking colour fields and grids that anticipated the Bauhaus aesthetic

An influential teacher at the VKhUTEMAS (the Russian equivalent of the Bauhaus)

Gazette du Bon Ton

His Compton (1896) and Cherwell wallpapers achieve a naturalistic intricacy and botanical refinement that place him firmly in the first rank of Victorian decorative designers

These artists travelled extensively to Egypt

His guards

producing some of the most powerful landscape and genre paintings of the Orientalist movement

anti-institutional Zen

and moonlit landscapes that constitute the final flowering of the woodblock tradition

940–1020 CE) is the world's longest epic poem by a single author — 60

Its visual culture — the painted faces

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