Visages by Sartre, illustrated by Wols

"Le malheur c'est que je ne vois pas mon visage - ou du moins, pas d'abord. Je le porte au devant de moi comme une confidence que j'ignore et ce sont, au contraire, les autres visages qui m'apprennent le mien. "
In this short text, Jean-Paul Sartre speaks about faces, switching masks, primitive expression of oneself's singularity remodeled by others looks.
Wols completes Sartre's analysis by four drawings, four fragmented faces.
The combination between Sartre and Wols works seems obvious and natural in this not known enough book.

Currently, the librairie Loliée can offer :

• Sartre - Wols. Visages. Précédé de Portraits Officiels. Paris, Seghers, 1948, in-12. 4 Pointes sèches de Wols. Copy on Marais paper.
  

Albert Dupont, to the letter

Albert Dupont, born in october 1951 in Hanoï, defines himself as an explorer of the "Art-Rebus", of the "Sens-Script" (wordplay on Sanskrit and "Meaning-script"). Sculptures, paintings, engravings... His work digs the language's poetic, dissects and resets words with humor and humbleness.

After literary studies, Albert Dupont starts engraving during his collaboration with Georges Visat, publisher of the Surrealists. He becomes friend with the painter Matta and meets with Isidore Isou, theorist of Creativity. He joins then the Lettrism and conducts the same named revue. In 1976, he creates another revue, La Novation, and collaborates to the creation of the Internationnal Association of the Letter and the Sign.
His referrals go to artists an poets as Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Breton, Duchamp, Guy Debord... people bending to a "fou-rieuse" (wordplay on mad and wild) revolution.

The Librairie Loliée offers a lasting selection of Albert Dupont's engravings.

Moliere's work

The first and collective edition of Moliere is published in 1682, nine year after the writer's death. «With the tactful help of Armande Béjart, Moliere's widow, the actor La Grange took care of the company's subsistence. Armande gave him all the manuscripts unpublished of the plays and, with the collaboration of Vivot, a theater lover and a personal friend of Moliere, he devolved to posterity all the work of the deceased master.» (in En Français dans le texte, n°119).

This edition, in regard of a first collection of Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière published in 1674-1675, contains six original plays : Don Garcie de Navarre, L’Impromptu de Versailles, Dom Juan, Mélicerte, Les Amans magnifiques, La Comtesse d’Escarbagnas.

Considered as a Major piece, this edition, rare in a binding at this time, can usually be found in binding of the 19th century.

Currently, the librairie Loliée can show you :

• MOLIERE - Les Oeuvres. Reveües, corrigées & augmentées. Enrichies de Figures en Taille-douce. Paris, Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin et Pierre Trabouillet, 1682, 8 volumes in-12, binding by Lortic. Early edition of the 30 engravings by J. Sauvé.

Les Chants de Maldoror by Bernard Buffet

Les Chants de Maldoror of Isidore Ducasse a.k.a Comte de Lautréamont, is a singular atypical book which facinated many painters among which Salvador Dali, René Magritte, Hans Bellmer and also Bernard Buffet.

This epic poem in prose tells the journey of Maldoror, a super human and evil archangel who fights against God and commits murderous acts which reveal his sadism and his homosexuality (full text in french here).
The black and powerful illustrations of Bernard Buffet, who sits the character in modern surroundings, are sometimes disturbing, and can't let someone indifferent. It's one of his more accomplished work.

(source : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chants_de_Maldoror)

Currently, the Librairie Loliée can offer :

• Buffet [Bernard) - Lautreamont (Comte de) - Les Chants de Maldoror. Paris, les Dix, 1952, 2 volumes in-4, folder and case. Edition limited to only 147 copies on velin blanc d'Arches, illustrated with 125 original decorations throughout by Bernard Buffet.

L'Image

As it is written in the frontispiece from the specimen issue, the revue L’Image "created in 1896, is published by the French Corparate Society of Wood Engravers, for the preservation of an art of which devices intend to disappear. ”

Released from december 1896 to december 1897, this revue reflects a pivotal period, the end of the century, marked by an artistic and decorative renewal. Each text or poem is framed by vegetal elements or figurative scenes. Artists as Mucha, Georges de Feure, Pissaro and many others took part in this project. The quaint approach consists in the will to make of a commun revue a work of art, to break the limits between writers, poets, and decorative artists. Each issue offers various illustrations in black and white or in colors, an extraordinary variety of arabesques, frames, lettrines and finials.
L’Image constitutes a new step in the decorative renascence typical of the nineteen century. (source : http://mapage.noos.fr/bellerydesfontaines/l_image.htm)

Currently, the librairie Loliée can offer :

• L'Image. Literary and artistic revue decorated with wood engravings. Paris, Floury, 1896, december 1896 to december 1897, 12 issues plus a specimen issue, bound in one volume in-4, illustrated cover. Each issue is complete of the delivery covers.

Matisse and Les Fleurs du Mal

Classical by conscience and education, modern by intuition, Baudelaire, divided by his own convictions, builds the model of a new and demanding poetry which founds his summet with Les Fleurs du Mal (here the whole text, in french). During the publication, the book is caught in the turmoil of a lawsuit for moral offense and for religious outrage - this last charge eventually dropped. Baudelaire is fined and forced to delete six pieces of the collection. The next edition, in 1861, fills out the first collection with thirty new poems. En 1866, Poulet-Malassis, Baudelaire's editor, who took refuge in Belgium, publishes under the title Les Épaves twenty three poems by Baudelaire of which the six censured pieces. For that, he will be condamned by the tribunal of Lille. The definitive and posthumous edition of 1868 is composed of 151 pieces, but again without the six censored poems. These will be pusblished, with those of Les Épaves, in 1869 at Brussels in a book entitled Complément aux Fleurs du Mal de Charles Baudelaire.

In 1944, Matisse, in regard of his friend Rouault who illustrated Les Fleurs du Mal in 1927 for the editor Vollard, chooses to illustrate the famous collection and makes a selection of 33 poems. The book includes an original etching for the frontispiece, 33 full-page photo-lithographs, 33 wood-engraved lettrines and 38 line-drawn decorations (10 full-page). The drawings, for the major part women faces, comprises also portraits of Baudelaire, Apollinaire and a self-portrait. In the book, published in 1947, the line is aerial and flimsy, representative of the painter's taste for uncluttered work, representative of his genius for simpleness.

(Sources : www.ac-strasbourg.fr/pedago/lettres/Fleurs - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal)

Currently, the librairie Loliée can offer you :

• [Matisse] - Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal. Paris, La Bibliothèque Française, 1947, 320 copies issued, signed by the artist.
  
• Baudelaire - les Fleurs du Mal. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860, in-12, bound. Original edition with the first cover.
  

Morand, a travelling life

Paul Morand is born in Paris in March, 13 1888. Only chilf of high bureaucrat and artist Eugène Morand, he is raised in a christian spirit and in a middle-class surrendings. His parents see Sarah Bernhardt, Lord Douglas and Oscar Wilde who estimates this high-spirited boy. When Morand fails at his major examination of philosophy, his father hires as a tutor the young Jean Giraudoux. Morand and Giraudoux become promptly friends. Graduated from the Paris Institut of Political Studies, Paul Morand passes the ambassady examination and becomes a diplomat.

He is in charge in London when WWI begins. Mobilised, Morand however stays in Great Britain till 1916. En 1917, he works for the Foreign Office, then at the ambassies of Rome and Madrid. Under the influence of Valery Larbaud, Morand begins to practise "a literary nomadism". He sees the Surrealists, writes two poems collections. Then, he releases Tendres Stocks, a compilation of Londoner short-stories prefaced by his friend Marcel Proust. It's in 1922 that Morand becomes famous with Ouvert la nuit, and, one year later, Fermé la nuit. Follow then numerous books, chronicals from the various places Morand went to : Europe of course, but also Africa, United-States and India.
Morand goes back to the Foreign Office in 1938. He is again in charge in London during the shutout of 1940. Back in France and forced to retire, Morand surprisingly comes close with the Government of Vichy, and publishes in 1941 Chroniques de l'homme maigre, a book in favor of Marshal Pétain. From this period date also Propos des 52 semaines, L'Homme pressé, Excursions immobiles. In 1943, Morand is nominated Minister of France in Bucarest and then ambassador in Berne. He must leave after the break between Switzerland and the Government of Vichy. At the end of the war he is dismissed by the temporary government of De Gaulle. Begins then a long exile during which he lives in Switzerland and in Spain. He focuses on his work and publishes Le Dernier Jour de l'Inquisition, Le Coucou et le Roitelet, L'Eau sous les ponts, Hécate et ses chiens, La Folle amoureuse, Fin de siècle, Nouvelles d'une vie, Les Écarts amoureux.
Admired by the young generation of the literary movement The Hussards (Roger Nimier, Michel Déon, Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent), Paul Morand knows a time of revival. In 1953, he returns to the french administration and eventually retires in 1955. He builds a varied work made of short-stories, essays, and portraits. In 1971, he publishes the moving Venises, one of his last book.
Paul Morand tries to be received at the Académie Française before the war but fails and presents himself a second time in 1958. His candidature causes the hostility of De Gaulle partisans. The vote is suspended. It's only in 1968 that De Gaulle agrees with a new candidature. Tis time, Morand wins, at eighty years old, the vacant post of Maurice Garçon. Exceptionnally, Morand is not received for his investiture by the French President.
Paul Morand dies in July, 23 1976.

Sources : http://www.academie-francaise.fr/Immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=637, Bibliographie des Auteurs Modernes par H. Talvart et J. Place.

Currently, the Librairie Loliée offers

In original editions :

• 1924 La Fleur Double
• 1929 Ma Légende – Le Rhône en Hydroglisseur
• 1930 Champions du Monde
• 1931 Papiers d’Identité – 1900
• 1932 Air Indien
• 1933 Rococo
• 1935 Bucarest
  
• 1936 Les Extravagants – La Route des Indes
• 1947 Montociel Rajah aux grandes Indes
• 1954 L'Eau sous les Ponts

In illustrated books :

• 1924 Tendres Stocks illustré par Chas-Laborde
• 1925 Fermé La Nuit illustré par Pascin
• 1950 Rues et Visages de New-York illustré par Chas-Laborde

The Rape of the Lock illustrated by Beardsley

Alexander Pope is a major writer from the 18teen english literature. Infant prodigy who writes poems since he is 12, student unseated from Oxford because of his catholic conversion, friend of Jonathan Swift et John Gay, famous for his translation of Homer, Pope is both a satirical and a romantic poet. Suffering since childhood from a form of tuberculosis which difforms his body, Alexander Pope, hot-tempered, pulls back quite soon from social life.

It is not a surprise that Aubrey Beardlsey, connected with Decadents and Symbolists, friend of Oscar Wilde of whom he illustrated Salomé, decided to work on The Rape of the Lock. In this mock-heroic poem in five cantos, Pope makes a parody of Helen of Troy, the story taking place in the Catholic aristocracy (the hero takes of a curl from his lady-love. This simple act generates a conflict between the two families. See the Complete Poem). The illustrations show the delicacy, sensuality and richness of Beardsley work. Tormented artist, also suffering of turberculosis, Beardsley dies officially from illness, and unofficially commits suicide at 26 years old, leaving a singular work, representative of the english Art nouveau.

Currently, The Librairie Loliée can show you :

• [Beardsley] - Pope - The Rape of the Lock. Londres, Leonard Smithers, 1896, binding from the editor. Five original illustrations from Aubrey Beardsley.
  

Poésie pour Pouvoir

Poet? Writer? Painter? Henri Michaux is all of this.

«J’écris pour me parcourir. Peindre, composer, écrire : me parcourir. Là est l’aventure d’être en vie.» (in Passages, 1950).

Poésie pour Pouvoir is a rare work. The original and illustrated edition was published in 46 copies on Arches paper. The page setting of the text, cycle of poetic remarks, is made by Michel Tapié, relative of the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dadaïst in his time, distinguished theorist and promoter of the Art Informel. The black and white graphics give to the book an elemantary dimension. The original bending in teak wood, studded on the cover, intensifies the raw strengh of this odd object. The fabrication of the bending was stopped and few copies with this original cover in teak can be found.

Currently, the Librairie Loliée can show you :

• MICHAUX, Henri – Poésie pour Pouvoir. Original Edition. Text and frontispiece by Henri Michaux. Page setting by Michel Tapié. S.l. (Paris), René Drouin, 1949, in-4. 46 copies on Arches paper, signed by Henri Michaux and Michel Tapié.

catalogue 2007

For the 19th International Antiquarian Book Fair of Paris (27, 28 and 29 April), the librairie Loliée offers you to download the new catalogue :

first part

second part

third part

You will find original editions from the 19th and 20th centuries, illustrated, romantic and Art Deco books, and also Surrealist revues and prints.

Informations :
International Antiquarian Book FAir
Librairie Loliée - Stand A83
Grand Palais - avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris.

The Drawing dedications of Cocteau

Jean Cocteau customized his dedications with drawings. He used to repeat the outline of a man, traced in one movement ; the line ending on the single first name Jean. Cocteau always signed with his trademark, a star.
The many variations of those dedications could, by their specifities, be worthy of a book.

Currently, the Librairie Loliée offers various original editions with drawings by Cocteau :

• Le Potomak, Paris, Stock, 1924, on Vergé paper
  
• Les Enfants Terribles, Paris, Grasset, 1929, on Alfa paper
  
• Morceaux Choisis, Paris, Gallimard, 1932, edition on common paper (in the dedication, Cocteau apologizes for sending a common and not deluxe edition)
  
• Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, Paris, Gallimard, 1937, on Alfa paper
  
• Les Monstres Sacrés, Paris, Gallimard, 1940, on Madagascar paper, H.C.
• La fin du Potomak, Paris, Gallimard, 1940, on Madagascar paper

The inexhaustible Bertall

Albert d'Arnoux alias Bertall (1820-1883) was a caricaturist, an illustrator, a writer, a photographer and a prolific artist. Disciple of the atelier of Drolling, Bertall begins his career illustrating popular novels known as novels « à 4 sous ». In 1843, Bertall, lover of Balzac work from which he picked his pen name, offers his services to Furne who publishes La Comédie Humaine. Balzac, who likes the style and talent of Bertall, asks his editor to give him more work. After that, Bertall cooperates with Gavarni at the illustration of Le Diable à Paris (1844-1845). He also illustrates Les Petites misères de la vie conjugale in 1845-1846 with the advices of Balzac. In the years 1860-1870, Bertall publishes his own texts with the Hachette editor. Interested in photography, he works with Hyppolite Bayard. He becomes a famous portraitist. One if his well known cliché is the portrait of Victor Hugo.

Currently, la librairie Loliée can show you :

• Balzac - Bertall - Petites Misères de la Vie Conjugale. Paris, chez Chendowski, s.d. (1845), in-8, bound by Mercier. Firts illustrated edition with 50 plate engravings and 310 drawings in the text.

Illustrations : a chopped initial composed for the sell flier of Petites Misères de la Vie Conjugale, an engraving selected from this same book.
(Sources : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertall - http://www.paris-france.org/MUSEES/balzac/collections/dessins_furne/bertall.htm)

Danse macabre by Hermann-Paul

In this book published in 1919, Hermann-Paul, french illustrator, makes his danse macabre. He points the blackness, weakness and haughtiness of human nature in ten wood engravings. "The Courtesan", "The Game", "Alcohol", "The Doctrine"... Each sketch reveals how the post WWI society has difficulties to get about his scars and deceases, tries to have fun with an hard-pushed smile.

Currently, the Librairie Loliée can show you :

• HERMANN-PAUL - La Danse Macabre. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1919, in-8.

Graphismes according to Laboureur

Jean-Emile Laboureur, with no doubt, was one of the most prolific illustrator of his generation. He left his mark on the period between WWI and WWII, with a style which combines the simpleness of the line to a delicate and a bright expression.

Graphismes, made up of 10 engravings, is a book meant for the pleasure of the eye. Each engraving, titled, is preceded by a comment selected from a well or unwell-known text. This work, humourous, reflects the refreshing lightness of the thirties.

Currently, the Librairie Loliée can show you :

• Laboureur- Graphisme, Paris, Aux dépend de l'Auteur, 1931, in-4.

A Los Toros with Picasso

In this book, published in 1961, Sabartès, a spanish poet who was for a long time the secretary of Picasso, returns a homage to the painter and to his love of bullfighting. The text is intersected with various reproductions which allow the reader to better understand background and technique of the Master.

Picasso realized especially for this work four lithographies, with one, splendid, in 24 colors.

Currently, you can find at the Librairie Loliée :

• Picasso - Sabartès A Los Toros, Monte-Carlos, André Sautet, 1961, in-4 oblong, cover and assembly illustrated, binding of the editor.
  

Pascin's grave

"Il était toujours coiffé d'un chapeau de feutre rond et rigide dont la coiffe portait le timbre d'un grand spécialiste des "caps". Ce chapeau est inséparable de la silhouette de Pascin, tel que je le revois encore, entre les arbres du clos déjà doré par l'automne. Il venait quelquefois me rendre visite dans le petit village du Multien où j'habite depuis 30 ans. "
With this words begins the text hommage of Mac Orlan to his friend Pascin, one of the major painters of the the legendary artistic circles of Montparnasse.
Julius Mordecai Pincas, also known as Pascin, born in Bulgaria in March 1885. He suffers the tough education of his father, a rich merchant. He soon breaks away of his family and takes a new name, not wanting to hurt his father's huffiness. After studying in the art schools of Budapest and Vienna, Pascin, who is twenty years old, decides to leave in Paris. His skills in satirical drawings - he uses to work for the german review Simplicissimus - force respect and admiration. Inspired by the grotesque touch of Daumier and Toulouse-Lautrec, Pascin outlines the parisian nights, frames his drawings with conceited and lewd bourgeois, with androgynous or young prostitutes, with madams and pimps.
As a travel lover (to United-States where he goes during War Word I, to Cuba and to Tunisia), Pascin outlines also sceneries of the everyday life, shows the poverty of the little people.
His all life, he loved two women Hermine, his wife, and Lucy, one of his models. Always seeking for compagny, Pascin gives parties which make the hapiness of his friends, goes out a lot, drinks a lot. He breaks with Hermine, can't forget Lucy, who got married after their story. Years passing by, Pascin locks himself in the part of the unrepentant rounder. The day before a new exhibition of his work, he gives a party and then locks himself in his atelier. He writes a last letter to Lucy, and commits suicide, the 2d of june 1930.

"Que les jeunes filles qui iront déposer une gerbe de lilas sur la tombe de Pascin se gardent bien de pleurer en esquissant la suprême génuflexion. Que la lumière de leur sourire se pose légèrement sur le tertre fleuri par d'autres mains. Que l'éternité de leur grâce adolescente se mêle à l'adieu quotidien de notre amitié." Thus closes out Mac Orlan's Tombeau de Pascin.

Currently, at the Librairie Loliée, you can find :

• Pascin - Mac Orlan - Tombeau de Pascin, Textes et Prétextes, 1944, in-8. Edition with 8 original engravings of Pascin.
  

Maurice Sachs, the sum of the opposites

Talking about Maurice Sachs life is describing the journey of a man who kept himself in a tenuous stability, wriggling between two fires. He was both a priest and an atheist, a hustler and an idealist, a jewish and a Gestapo collaborator, a homosexual and a married man. Born in a jewish family of parisian jewelers, Maurice Sachs deserts soon this cocoon bourgeois for the real life. Loose ends, he is picked by a catholic and married couple. Sachs becomes catholic and go to the seminary. His sexual preferences prevent him to become a priest. He leaves France for the United Sates where he marries the daughter of a parish priest. He becomes then protestant and, soon, father of a newborn son. This parenthesis of social stability lasts six months. Sachs abandons woman and son and comes back in Paris with one of his lovers.

Thanks to his contacts, he is hired as a secretary by Cocteau. During this period, he meets Max Jacob, Reverdy, Gide. He publishes his first novels and encounters a little success. During the Second World War, he goes to Germany as a voluntary worker and offers his services to the Gestapo. He lives of games, collaborates without complex. «On ne trahit bien que ceux qu’on aime» he wrotes. Sachs, who saves a friend of his from an imminent arrestation, is eventually betrayed by another spy. Under arrest, he is incarcerated in a german jail. There, forced to emprisonment, Sachs writes his master work, Le Sabbat. At the end of the war, he is taken with other prisoners to Hambourg. Exhausted by three walking days, he refuses to go further and is shot down by a bullet in the scruff.

Le Sabbat, autobiographical narration, recounts the dantesque itinary of a man who was both adulate and hated, unveils a open-hearted and talented writer who leads a tumultuous and miserable existence. Rare is a work so indivisible of his author.
Sources : http://www.seineetdanube.com - http://fr.wikipedia.org

Currently, at the Librairie Loliée you can find :

• Sachs (Maurice) - Le Sabbat. Paris, Editions Corrêa, 1956.

Rip Van Winkle illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving, published in1819, was part of a collection intitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon and usually assigned as the birth of fantastic literature. Irving is inspired by european fairy tales patterns (the brother Grimm notably) and built fictions which mix fantastic, mythology and U.S. politics.

Rip Van Winkle tells how the protagonist, a dutch settler, gets drunk and fells asleep, a stormy night, in the Castkill Mountains. When he wakes up, he finds, incredulous, that his night of drinking with the spirits of Henry Hudson and his crew from the shift "Half-moon", counts for twenty years to the rest of the world. In one night, the subject of his Majesty George the Third, is now a free citizen of the United States! During his long sleep, the revolutionnary war issues on the creation of the USA. Welcomed as a ghost, our hero is frightened by this new nation. The "american dream", for him, begins as a nightmare (see the entire story).

Irving's stories became legends and take part nowadays of the american unconscious mind.

The illustrations by Arthur Rackham, feed the fanstastic dimension of Rip Van Winkle and underscore the irony and the blackness of this unpleasant aftertaste of this unwilling American.

Currently, you can find at the librairie Loliée :

• [Rackham (Arthur)] - Irving (Washington) - Rip Van Winckle. Paris, Hachette, 1906, in-4, "bradel" binding in wove paper.
• [Rackham (Arthur)] - Fort(Paul) - Le Livre des Ballades. Paris, Piazza, 1921, in-4.

Par les champs et par les grèves

Par les champs et par les grèves, posthumous work, relates travels Flaubert made in Britain with Maxime Du Camp. Du Camp specified in his Souvenirs littéraires that the choice actually came to Britain because it was a rather far distant country, still out of civilization by his language and by his way of life. The book contains a distant irony which is typical of Flaubert who loves to mix different levels, writing about the visit of a monument and in the same time quoting his readings of travel.

This book is a learning tale, of sensations, of the wild and primal beauty of nature, and also a learning of britain people who has such peculiar standards. With this book, Flaubert experiments with the descriptive narration and adjusts his technique (portaits, urban and outsides lanscapes). Par les champs et par les grèves is also a quest tale, the one of a writer "in the making", who runs in the step of one his stylistic masters, Chateaubriand. There is something really touching when Flaubert visits the grave still empty of Chateaubriand at the Grand Bé island, or when he pays a nervous visit to Combourg where the great author grew up.

The book already indicates the Flaubert's touch and his predilection for all-embracing themes and motives, any material suitable for future novels. Nothing strange so that Proust was inspired by Par les champs et les grèves, his reading coincides with the redaction of Jean Santeuil and the sequence dedicated to Beg-Meil.
Source : http://www.crlv.org/outils/encyclopedie/afficher.php?encyclopedie_id=562

Currently at the librairie Loliee:

• Par les Champs et les grèves, Paris, Charpentier, 1886, in-8, binding by Yseult. Original Edition.
  
• Par les Champs et les grèves, Paris, Carteret, 1924, binding by Noulhac. Edition illustrated by 53 etchings of Henri Jourdain.

Galanis, a greek master

Considered as one of the master of contemporary engraving, Dimitrios Emmanuel Galanis, native to Greece, was born in Athens in 1879 (or 1882) and died in Paris in 1966.

Naturalized french citizen, he used to leave in Paris where he associated with intellectual circles. He frequented Derain, Matisse and Maillol. His aesthetic was closer from Maillol than Matisse. He was the first greek artist to be a well-known member of the artistical european avant-garde. In 1920, he took part to an exhibition with Matisse, Vlaminck and Georges Braque. In 1921, he was exhibiting with Juan Gris, Raoul Dufy, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. Famous in France, he exhibited also in Brussels Bruxelles, London and New York.

His first one-man exhibition occured in 1922. He received a rousing and welcomed review. André Malraux told of Galanis that he had a same power of evocation as Giotto's.
Galanis was also a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and member of the Institut.

Galanis illustrated various books. His mastery shows through the beautiful etchings he composed in 1930 for Les Nourritures Terrestres by Gide.

Currently at the Librairie Loliee :

• [Galanis] - Gide - Les Nourritures Terrestres. Paris, Gallimard, 1930, in-4, binding by Martin.
  
• [Galanis] - Gabory - Coeurs à Prendre. Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1920, in-4.
  

(source : http://fr.wikipedia.org)