Le Bain de la Mariée Juive The Bath of the Jewish Bride

by Alexandre Lunois

$950 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A scarce lithograph, depicting a Jewish ritual bath Mikvah in a North African country. The Mikvah is a Sephardic tradition in which the bride, her female friends and relatives take a pre-nuptial bath together. Lunois uses this imagined scene to show us a handsome nude just before she is wrapped in a towel. Using his technique of wash lithography, Lunois gives the moment a rich, impressionistic feel. Alexandre Lunois showed a marked aptitude for lithography at an early age and at the age

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