Émile Auguste Renault, better known by his pseudonym Malo-Renault, was a French pastelist, color engraver and illustrator. He was born in Saint-Malo on October 5, 1870 and died in Le Havre on July 19, 1938.
Biography
Since childhood he started drawing frequently. Auguste Lemoine, a drawing teacher at the college of Saint-Malo from 1883 to 1903 inspired him to draw from nature and in colour. Under the direction of Auguste Lemoine, Malo-Renault experimented with etchings. After completing his Bachelor of Arts, Malo-Renault went on to study architecture in Paris as a Stéphane Pannemaker student at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. It was only after his marriage in 1897 with Honorine Tian, known as :fr:Nori Malo-Renault|Nori Malo-Renault, a student of etcher :fr:Adolphe-Alphonse Géry-Bichard|Géry-Bichard, that Malo-Renault began his engraving career with the support of his wife for the development of color prints, in particular in Le serpent noir by Paul Adam. Between 1903 and 1928 he participated in many exhibitions at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where he was a member from 1910. It is a representative of the art nouveau style with a Japanese influence.
Works
Color artwork
Illustrated books
Litearature
Jules Renard, Ragotte, etchings in black and white printed intaglio by Geny Gros, 28 × 19 cm, Paris, bookstore of the Collection des Dix, A. Ramagnol editions, 1909, 117 p.
Malo-Renault, Quelques-unes, album, suite engraved in color of 15 Parisienne sketches, preface by Roger Marx, 41 × 29 cm, 1909.
Paul Adam, Le Serpent noir, more than 80 etchings and drypoints in color, Les Cent bibliophiles, 29 × 21 cm, 1913, 335 p.
Tristan Corbière, La Rapsode foraine et Le pardon de Sainte-Anne, 12 woods enhanced with colors, 32 × 26 cm, Flory, 1920, 22 p.
Maurice Barrès, Le Jardin de Bérénice, 30 dry-points in color, 28 × 20 cm, Les Cent bibliophiles, 1922, 170 p.
Émile Malo-Renault, Raquettes, text and 6 dry-points in color, 39 × 28 cm, L’Estampe nouvelle, 1923. Edition of 45 signed copies.
François-René de Chateaubriand, René, 6 dry-points in color and headbands, 28 × 19 cm, prints printed by Porcabeuf, Paris, Dorbon, 1925, 101 p.
Charles Perrault, Peau d'âne, La Belle au bois dormant, drawings by Malo-Renault, Larousse, 1923.
« Le Monotype», Art et décoration, February 1920, p. 49-56, 8 engravings.
« Henri Rivière », Art et décoration, February. 1921, p. 43-51, 10 engravings
« Les Merveilles du Livre italien », A.B.C magazine de l'art, June 1926, p. 177-181.
« Sergent-Marceau et Emira Marceau graveurs », L' Amateur d' estampes, 1927
« La technique d'Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, graveur ». L'Amateur d'estampes, 6th year, no 3, May 1927, p. 83-87
« La gravure sur bois: gravure au canif, gravure au burin, gravure en camaïeu, gravure en couleur », Le Dessin, revue d'art, d' éducation et d'enseignement, October 1930, p. 369-372 ; et novembre 1930, p. 429-432.
« La gravure en taille-douce. Le pointillé, la manière noire ou mezzotint, la pointe sèche », Le Dessin, Avril 1931, n° 12, p. 744-749.
« La gravure en taille-douce », Le Dessin, May 1931, p 46-52..
