Romantic Winter Fantasy À La Russe - Boudoir Art - Pochoir c 1920s P2564

Well, first, what is a boudoir, really? It is a woman's private space, for reading a book, or to collect her thoughts, even to just plain simmer down (the word is derived from the French verb bouder, to sulk), and, sometimes, to receive a friend... or a lover. And Boudoir Art? Paintings and prints, usually quite small, that speak to her femininity: images of fashion, and romantic courtship usually, and not to be confused with boudoir photography by a long shot. And these lovely works achieved a certain perfection in the first decades of the 20th Century. And here we have the 18th century imagined by the jazz age, in fact, as an escape from the 20s! All that roaring could get on one's nerves from time to time. This delicious idyll then was just what the soul doctor ordered. Our best guess at the signature is Gast or Gost or Gyst: whoever that was they were terrific. Art measures 9 3/4" x13" and the frame is 7" x 10". The pochoir process, characterized by its crisp lines and brilliant co