Nori Malo-Renault

Nori Malo-Renault

Nori Malo-Renault (c 1900 à Paris)

Honorine Césarine Tian better known by his pseudonym, Nori Malo-Renault, was a French etcher. She was born in Marseille France on January 20, 1871 and died at Pau France on January 29, 1953.

Honorine Césarine Tian is a student of the School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1897 she was married the painter pastellist Émile Auguste Renault, known as Malo-Renault (1870-1938). Under the name of Nori Malo-Renault, she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1897, then at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts from 1902 to 1912.

Works

Nori Malo-Renault produces etchings on base adding drypoint and aquatint, for example for the print of La Femme au masque. after a pastel by Edmond Aman-Jean whose five coppers are kept in Paris at the Chalcographie du Louvre Paris.

The original print Salomé, color etching, are also kept at the Chalcographie du Louvre.

Some of his prints, mainly in color etchings, are kept in Paris in the prints and photography department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

• Salomé, original color print and embroidered decoration on the cover of one book the play by Oscar Wilde.
• La Femme au Masque, after Edmond Aman-Jean, etching, drypoint and aquatint in color
• Marie-Annick, etching in original color and monochrom version

• Le Petit café, etching in color 440 × 300 mm.

• Portrait of William Ewart Gladston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, monochrome etching after a lithograph by John McLure Hamilton.
• Portrait of Fanny Charrin, after a miniature by Augustin, color etching,
• Breakfast or Little Girl and Japanese Doll, etching in original color,  

• « Nori Malo-Renault », in: Dictionnaire Bénézit ((en) extrait de notice en ligne sur la base Oxford Index).