The Awakening

The Awakening  is an original modern artwork realized by  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952) in 1922 .

Original Lithograph on ivory paper.

Signed and dated on plate on the lower left corner (on a rock): F. Bac 1922.

Perfect conditions. 

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The Awakening  depicts a very interesting scene. A girl below is awakened by an apparition of a standing and monumental female figure on her right.  She  is, according to the headdress, the Goddess Minerva, goddess of the wisdom. the Goddess is taking off a veil to reveal herself. On the right you can see a glimpse of vegetation; the figures indeed are surrounded by dense vegetation.

This work has been realized the French artist  Ferdinand Bac  (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener.  He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more   other famous people of the time.   He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida, Job, Sem, Jean-Louis Forain or Caran d'Ache. Ferdinand alternated between Colombières and a beautiful mansion in Compiègne that also belonged to the Ladan-Bockairys. There he met Marcel Proust, Jean Cocteau, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Anna de Noailles. Until the end of his life, Ferdinand Bac continued to travel, write and draw, reflecting on the political and historical development of the world.