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Curatorial Narrative Attributs au pochoir Pl.10 by A. Charayron embodies the essence of Art Nouveau’s fin-de-sicle aesthetic, with its sinuous lines and organic forms evoking a sense of fluidity and dynamism. Created in 1914, this lithograph exemplifies the medium’s technical capabilities, as Charayron’s hand guides the pochoir technique to achieve a level of nuance and expressiveness that transcends mere reproduction. The artist’s use of red, green, blue, and white hues creates a visual tension between warm and cool tones, imbuing the composition with an almost palpable atmospheric weight. As we consider the scale at which this lithograph would be encountered in a luxury interior environment 44×61 inches being a significant format for a designed object we note that its chromatic structure becomes even more pronounced. The interplay between red and green, in particular, acquires a greater sense of spatial rhythm, as if the color