Fautrier l'enragé

Fautrier Jean - Jean Paulhan

Verlag: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, Paris, 1949

In-folio, en feuilles, couverture illustrée, emboîtage de l'éditeur. Edition originale de Jean Paulhan , illustrée par Jean Fautrier de 27 compositions gravées selon des techniques différentes souvent associées (eau-forte, lithographie, xylographie, héliogravure, aquatinte), dont une eau-forte pour la couverture (dont il existe trois versions différentes) un frontispice lithographié, un titre gravé, 24 compositions in texte et 5 reproductions en lithographie vernies hors texte. Tirage limité à 218 exemplaires. Un des 204 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin. Chemise et étui très légèrement défraichis sinon bel exemplaire. In-folio, Loose as isued under illustrated wrappers, chemise and slipcase. Original edition illustrated with 27 prints by Jean Fautrier : twenty etchings (twelve with aquatint, one with heliogravure, and one with heliogravure and aquatint), one heliogravure, two zincographs, one woodcut, one aquatint wrapper, and eight reproductions Limited edition of 218 copies. One of the 204 numbered on vélin du Marais. The most important illustrated book by Fautrier. (Mason 227 - 260) . Literary collaborations played an important part in Fautrier's printmaking and throughout his career he worked on a number of projects for books. One of these was Jean Paulhan's text Fautrier l'enragé, published in September 1949 in an edition of 250, for which Fautrier provided forty-eight images including 'The Executed' and 'Oradour'. Paulhan's text for Fautrier l'enragé is a eulogy of Fautrier's work and the prints serve not as illustrations, but as examples of the artist's oeuvre. Most of the images date from between 1946 (when the project appears to have been conceived) and 1948, and were printed on Fautrier's own press at Châtenay. In addition to these, Fautrier included the three earlier images which Mason has suggested are those which Frénaud intended to use in his unrealised book, 'The Executed', 'Oradour' and 'Les Otages' (repr. Mason 1986, p.127 no.254). As with 'Oradour' and 'The Executed', this last includes mask-like faces, suggesting the anonymous victims of wartime brutality. Of the other prints provided by Fautrier for Fautrier l'enragé, some derive from the 'Otage' series, while others are depictions of cadavers and truncated bodies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G021

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Fautrier l'enragé
Verlag: Librairie Auguste Blaizot, Paris
Erscheinungsdatum: 1949
Einband: Emboîtage
Illustrator: Jean Fautrier
Zustand: Bon