Nori Malo-Renault

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

Nori Malo-Renault
Born
Honorine Césarine Tian

20 janvier 1871
Marseille France
Died29 janvier 1953
Pau France
NationalityFrench
Other namesHonorine Renault (spouse)
OccupationColor engraver, printmaker
StyleArt nouveau
ChildrenJean Malo-Renault

Biography

Honorine Césarine Tian studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson. In 1897 she married the painter pastellist Émile Auguste Renault (1870-1938), known as Malo-Renault. Under the name of Nori Malo-Renault, she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1897, then at the salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1902 to 1912.

Works

Nori Malo-Renault produced etchings, sometime adding drypoint and aquatinte, for example for the print of La Femme au masque after a pastel by Edmond Aman-Jean whose five plates of copper (one by color) are kept in Paris at the Chalcographie du Louvre.

The original print Salomé, color etching, are also kept (three matrix of copper) 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.

Works in public collections

    London British Museum

        Printed in full color of a print of her husband : little girl lying in bed, holding four dolls in her arms,

    Paris,

        National Library of France

            The Black Serpent by Paul Adam, ill. Malo-Renault and Nori Malo-Renault color print

        Chalcography of the Louvre

            Salome (3 boards) , original print

            The Woman in the Mask (5 plates)

    Quimper, Museum of Fine Arts

        Marie-Annick original etching

Prints

  • Salomé,[1] 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,original etching in color and monochrom print.
  • Le Petit café, etching in color 440 × 300 mm.

References

  • « Nori Malo-Renault », in: Bénézit Dictionary of Artists on line Oxford Index
Invitation card 1999 museum of fine arts, Quimper, (print Marie-Annick)



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