Nori Malo-Renault

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

Biography
Nori Malo-Renault 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.

She helps her husband with the printing of his illustrations, in particular for Le Serpent Noir of Paul Adam. Under the name of Nori Malo-Renault, she exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1897 and some Binding Decorate, then at the salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts from 1902 to 1912.

Works
Nori Malo-Renault produced etchings in color, by printing successively inked matrix of the different colors onto the paper in correct alignment to provide the color print, this is called the "registration" process. For example for the print of La Femme au masque after a pastel by Edmond Aman-Jean whose  (one by color) are kept in Paris at the Chalcographie du Louvre.

Salomé, original etching. Character from the play'Oscar Wilde
The original print Salomé, color etching, are also kept (three matrix of copper) at the Chalcographie du Louvre. A cover decoration on the model of the Salomé print was embroidered by Nori Malo-Renault. This book is kept at the BnF

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

Prints

 * La Femme au Masque, after Edmond Aman-Jean, etching, drypoint and aquatint in color
 * Salomé, original etching in color
 * Marie-Annick, original etching in color
 * Le Petit café, etching in color 440 × 300 mm.
 * Portrait of William Ewart Gladston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, monochrome etching after a lithography by John McLure Hamilton.
 * L'Oréal (allegory),original etching in color
 * Portrait of Fanny Charrin, after a miniature by Augustin, etching in color.
 * Breakfast or Little Girl and Japanese Do, original etching in color,
 * Dinnette à la poupée chinoise, original etching in color

Cover Books
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Embroideries

 * Deux lévriers sur la plage
 * La déesse Minerve

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
 * Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Black Serpent by Paul Adam, ill. Malo-Renault and print on color by Nori Malo-Renault
 * Manufacture de Sèvres : Bonbonnière, dessins décors à Sèvres entre 1920-1921 (art décoratif)
 * Chalcography of the Louvre
 * Salomé, original print (3 copper plates)
 * La Femme au masque (5 copper plates)
 * Quimper
 * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper
 * Marie-Annick original etching
 * Musée départemental Breton
 * Exlibris de Charles Le Goffic
 * Rennes
 * Musée de Bretagne:
 * Les Petits dormeurs, au dos, inscription avec tampon encreur: imprimé par Nori Malo Renault
 * Salomé, eau-forte originale en couleur
 * Femme au masque avec plusieurs tirages de réglage  (couleur)
 * Marie-Annick, eau-forte monochrome
 * Élégante buvant son thé, au dos, inscription avec tampon encreur: imprimé par Nori Malo Renault