Nori Malo-Renault, pseudonym of Honorine Césarine Tian . She was born on January 20, 1871 in
Marseille
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France
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and on January 29, 1953 died at Pau, France. was a French
etcher
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, color
printmaker
Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...
.
Biography
Nori Malo-Renault studied at the
Beaux-Arts de Paris
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences ...
, in the studio of
Luc-Olivier Merson
Luc-Olivier Merson (21 May 1846 – 13 November 1920) was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency designs.
Biography
Born Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson in Paris, France, he grew up in an artist ...
. In 1897 she married the painter
pastellist
A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
Émile Auguste Renault (1870-1938), known as
Malo-Renault
Émile Auguste Renault, better known by his pseudonym Malo-Renault, was a French pastelist, color engraver and illustrator. He was born in Saint-Malo on October 5, 1870, and died in Le Havre on July 19, 1938.
Biography
Renault began drawing f ...
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She helps her husband with the printing of his illustrations, in particular for ''Le Serpent Noir'' of Paul Adam. Under the name of Nori Malo-Renault, she exhibited at the
Salon des Artistes Français
The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial art ...
from 1897 and some Binding Decorate, then at the salon de la
Société nationale des beaux-arts
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA; ; en, National Society of Fine Arts) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions.
1862
Es ...
from 1902 to 1912.
Works
Nori Malo-Renault produced
etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
s in color, by printing successively inked matrix of the different colors onto the paper in correct alignment to provide the color print, this is called the "registration" process. For example for the print of ''La' ''Femme au masque'' after a pastel by
Edmond Aman-Jean
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.
Life
His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had hi ...
whose five plates of copper (one by color) are kept in Paris at the Chalcographie du Louvre.
File:1- La Femme au masque.jpg
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Salomé, original etching. Character from the play'
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
The original print ''Salomé,'' color etching, are also kept (three matrix of copper) at the Chalcographie du Louvre. A cover decoration on the model of the Salomé print was embroidered by Nori Malo-Renault. This book is kept at the BnF
File:Salomé. e.f. originale de Nori MR.jpg, The original print ''Salomé,'' color etching
File:Salomé, d'Oscar Wilde, décor-couv, par Nori MR.jpg, Cover book, libretto of Oscar Wilde's play
Some of his prints, mainly in color etchings, are kept in Paris in the prints and photography department of the
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...
.
Prints
File:Marie-Annick e-f originale. Nori MR.jpg, ''Marie-Annick'', Original color etcher
File:Gladstone e.f. mono-chrome Nori MR.jpg, Portrait of William Ewar
Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-conse ...
, after John Mc Lure Hamiltond
File:Edgar Degas, Le Petit Café, interprété par Nori Malo-Renault, estampe en couleur.jpg, ''Le petit Café'', color etcher after Edgar Degas
File:Dinette avec poupée japonaise Nori Malo-Renault.jpg, ''La Dinette''
* ''La Femme au Masque'', after
Edmond Aman-Jean
Edmond Aman-Jean (13 January 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.
Life
His father was the owner and operator of an industrial lime kiln. He had hi ...
, etching, drypoint and
aquatint
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used h ...
in color
* ''Salomé'', original etching in color
* ''Marie-Annick'', original etching in color
* ''Le Petit café'', etching in color 440 × 300 mm.
* Portrait of William Ewart Gladston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, monochrome etching after a
lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
by
John McLure Hamilton
John McLure Hamilton (January 31, 1853Augustin, etching in color.
* ''Breakfast or Little Girl'' ''and Japanese Do'', original etching in color,
* ''Dinnette'' à la poupée chinoise, original etching in color
Cover Books
Source:
File:Décor de couverture. Le Chateau des Merveilles 1893.jpg, Lamé d'argent (1893)
File:Décor de couverture de Roman Futile.jpg, Broderie dans un cercle
File:Salomé, d'Oscar Wilde, décor-couv, par Nori MR.jpg, Salomé, libretto of Oscar Wilde's play
File:Jules Renard 1909 Ragotte.jpg, Jules Renard 1909 Ragotte
File:Petites Légendes 1900 Bruxelles.jpg, Eamels. Petites Légendes 1900
Embroideries
File:Lévriers 1948, Broderie Nori MR,.jpg, Greyhounds running on the beach (1948)
File:Minerve. Broderie de Nori MR,.jpg, Minerva slaying the snake
File:Brodreie et lamé sur peau blanche de Nori MR (1925).jpg, Broderie et lamé (1925)
* Deux lévriers sur la plage
* La déesse Minerve
Public collections
;London
*British Museum, Printed in full color of a print of her husband little girl lying in bed, holding four dolls in her arms
;Paris
*Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Black Serpent by Paul Adam, ill. Malo-Renault and print on color by Nori Malo-Renault
*Manufacture de Sèvres Bonbonnière, dessins décors à Sèvres entre 1920-1921 (art décoratif)
*Chalcography of the Louvre
** ''Salomé,'' original print (3 copper plates)
** ''La Femme au masque'' (5 copper plates)
;Quimper
* Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
** Marie-Annick ' original etching
* Musée départemental Breton
** Exlibris de Charles Le Goffic '
;Rennes
* Musée de Bretagne:
** ''Les Petits dormeurs'', au dos, inscription avec tampon encreur: imprimé par Nori Malo Renault
** ''Salomé'', eau-forte originale en couleur
** ''Femme au masque'' avec plusieurs tirages de réglage (couleur)
** ''Marie-Annick'', eau-forte monochrome
** ''Élégante buvant son thé'', au dos, inscription avec tampon encreur: imprimé par Nori Malo Renault
Notes
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Music and entertainment
* Musical note, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music
* Notes (album), ''Notes'' (album), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian
* ''Notes'', a common (yet unofficial) sho ...