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The absolute masterwork of book illustration by André Derain bound in an exquisite and playfull binding by J. Anthoine Legrain
Les horribles et espovantables faictz et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel, roy des dipsodes, fils du géant Gargantua. Composé nouvellement par Maitre Alcofrybas Nasier. Orné de Bois en couleurs dessinés et gravés par André Derain.
Paris, A. Skira, (1943). 4to (350 x 290 mm). [II], 187, [11] pages (first 2 and last 5 pages blank).
With 128 (22 full page) colour woodcuts, 34 colour woodcut initials and 18 colour woodcut endpieces by André Derain.
Middle brown crushed morocco binding signed Anthoine Legrain. An ongoing design over the covers and spine of a broad border of fishbone lines at the outer side tooled in gold and on the inner side blindtooled, becoming even broader on the spine. On the covers playfull arranged gold tooled curly R's onlaid with green, turqoise, blue, red, yellow and aubergine morocco. Central on the flat spine the title. Turn ins with a broad gold tooled fishbone pattern border. Double end bands of light- and dark green silk. Dark blue peau de suede pastedowns and first free endleaves, second pair of free endleaves of marbled paper. Edges gilt. With a vellum paper chemise and slipcase. Original wrapper bound in. This is undoubtedly the finest book illustrated by the artist, and one of the most remarkable illustrated books of the 20th century. The original iconography draws on 16th century imagery, from which it borrows both compositional codes and coloring techniques. It took over three years to apply the tints by hand in a kind of "à la poupé" technique to each woodblock, and each copy of the book features slight variations that distinguish it from the others and is thus unique.
Jacques Anthoine Legrain (1907-?) was active from 1929, the year in which his stepfather Pierre Legrain died, till in the 1950s. In the beginning he continued to work in the style of Pierre Legrain, but in the end of the 1930s he evolved his own style and created an impressive oevre of bindings.
-Literature: From Manet to Hockney 111; The Artist & the Book 1860-1960, 81. Carteret, Illustrés, IV, 329. Monod 9403. Rauch, 38; Chapon, le Peintre et le livre, p. 155; Castleman, p. 31; Gilbert, Catalogue raisonné, 15.1; Maler machen Bücher 34.
-Condition: Simply a perfect copy.
With 128 (22 full page) colour woodcuts, 34 colour woodcut initials and 18 colour woodcut endpieces by André Derain.
Middle brown crushed morocco binding signed Anthoine Legrain. An ongoing design over the covers and spine of a broad border of fishbone lines at the outer side tooled in gold and on the inner side blindtooled, becoming even broader on the spine. On the covers playfull arranged gold tooled curly R's onlaid with green, turqoise, blue, red, yellow and aubergine morocco. Central on the flat spine the title. Turn ins with a broad gold tooled fishbone pattern border. Double end bands of light- and dark green silk. Dark blue peau de suede pastedowns and first free endleaves, second pair of free endleaves of marbled paper. Edges gilt. With a vellum paper chemise and slipcase. Original wrapper bound in. This is undoubtedly the finest book illustrated by the artist, and one of the most remarkable illustrated books of the 20th century. The original iconography draws on 16th century imagery, from which it borrows both compositional codes and coloring techniques. It took over three years to apply the tints by hand in a kind of "à la poupé" technique to each woodblock, and each copy of the book features slight variations that distinguish it from the others and is thus unique.
Jacques Anthoine Legrain (1907-?) was active from 1929, the year in which his stepfather Pierre Legrain died, till in the 1950s. In the beginning he continued to work in the style of Pierre Legrain, but in the end of the 1930s he evolved his own style and created an impressive oevre of bindings.
-Literature: From Manet to Hockney 111; The Artist & the Book 1860-1960, 81. Carteret, Illustrés, IV, 329. Monod 9403. Rauch, 38; Chapon, le Peintre et le livre, p. 155; Castleman, p. 31; Gilbert, Catalogue raisonné, 15.1; Maler machen Bücher 34.
-Condition: Simply a perfect copy.
€ 16.500
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