Bonne Année 1903 Hand-Drawn French Art Nouveau Postcard watercolor postcard which is wonderfully strange

which is wonderfully strange

A terrific gift for a lover of mid-century Scandinavian ceramics

but would also come in very handy at a big dinner party piled with chunks of good bread

and doesn't seem especially fragile

but really I'd treat this box more as a decorative than a functional object anyway--set it somewhere to admire it and leave it alone

Bonne Année 1903 Hand-Drawn French Art Nouveau Postcard watercolor postcard which is wonderfully strangeThe striking Art Nouveau pen and ink drawing on the front of this 1903 postcard feels to me very apropos for marking the beginning of 2021 not exactly bright and cheerful, but more like a vision of a future emerging from a field of black. Super French, and really lovely, this is one I think I'd put in a frame and hang where I'd see it all the time in part as a reminder to live in the present. 3 1 2" x 5 1 2". Very good condition. Signed by the artist