Yves Saint Laurent - Le Diable Amoureux

Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008)

“Ballet de Jean Anouilh et Roland Petit” – Le Petit Valet · Le Diable Amoureux · La Jeune Femme

Limited Offset Lithograph – Seido Paris – Edition 32/300

After a design by Yves Saint Laurent, published in France by Seido Paris.

Only a few artists of the 20th century have fused fashion, theater and visual art with such naturalness and elegance as Yves Saint Laurent. Beyond his legendary haute couture collections, his great passion was theater, opera and especially ballet. His stage and costume designs are today among the most poetic and at the same time rare testimonies of his artistic work.

The present work brings together several costume designs from the “Ballet de Jean Anouilh et Roland Petit” and shows the figures “Le Petit Valet”, “Le Diable Amoureux” and “La Jeune Femme.” With a few masterfully placed lines, Saint Laurent succeeds in capturing movement, elegance and character. The reduced color palette, the fine ink drawings and the subtle colored accents give the composition an extraordinary lightness and timeless refinement.

This very ability to achieve maximum expressive power with minimal means makes Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion drawings icons of French design. The sheet vividly documents the creative process of one of the 20th century’s most important couturiers and conveys the atmosphere of a Paris atelier where fashion and stage art blend into an inseparable unit.

This edition is especially sought-after due to its small edition size of only 300 copies. The present exemplar bears the early edition number 32/300 and carries the embossed blind stamp “Seido Paris,” which authenticates the exclusivity of this limited edition.

While Yves Saint Laurent is revered worldwide as the epitome of French haute couture, his graphic works — in particular his theater- and ballet-inspired designs — appear only rarely on the international art market. They fuse fashion history, stage art and decorative graphics at the highest level and count among the most elegant collectibles of their genre.

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Details

* Artist: after Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008)
* Title: Ballet de Jean Anouilh et Roland Petit
* Figures depicted: Le Petit Valet, Le Diable Amoureux, La Jeune Femme
* Technique: Limited offset lithography
* Publisher: Seido Paris, France
* Blind stamp: Seido Paris, embossed
* Edition: 32/300
* Signature: Yves Saint Laurent on the print
* Framed size: 33 × 27 cm
* Visible sheet size: approx. 24 × 18 cm
* Style: Haute-Couture illustration · Theater and ballet art · Decorative graphics · Art moderne
* Condition: Excellent preserved condition. The work presents itself unusually fresh, color-stable and with clear contours. It has not been removed from the frame for examination. The frame shows only light, age-related signs of use.

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An exceptional collectible

This limited edition combines Yves Saint Laurent’s unmistakable hand with the elegance of classical ballet and the timeless aesthetic of French theater art. Works from this rarely offered Seido-Paris edition are highly valued by collectors of haute couture, fashion illustration and decorative graphics.

A rare opportunity to acquire an excellently preserved edition sheet after a design by Yves Saint Laurent in early numbering – a work of extraordinary elegance, museum-like charm and timeless decorative quality.