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The Librairie Loliée presents a Varia list of 19th and 20th centuries first editions and illustrated books.

Varia 2007

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Scanreigh, techniques and diversity

Initially inclined to the minimalist abstraction, Jean-Marie Scanreigh, teaching in the Art schools of Nimes, turns at the beginning of the Eighties to engraving and shows great interest for the techniques of editions. His pictorial work grows rich (collage, mixed substances). True devourer of techniques, he does not cease producing. His engraved work counts 150 books and not less than one thousand of prints, woods, linos, etchings...

“[...] Assemblings, puzzles, palimpsests are privileged devices for me : I always need a precondition to work.

For long time it was wreinkled backgrounds, today it is a special collage of my own prints and pages of artist's books. I reinvent a rupestral wall with wrecked surfaces which are as many challenges to take up or to exploit."
J.M. Scanreigh

La Librairie Loliée offers a permanent selection of drawings of the artist.

To see : Jean-Marie Scanreigh's blog.

The enigmatic Badia-Vilato

We know few things of Badia-Vilato, Spanish poster designer. During the civil war, he works for the CNT (National Confederation of Work) and the FAI (Iberian Anarchistic Federation). Under the authority of Pro-Franco, he goes to France. He works for the Air France company and signs some of their more beautiful posters. He continues his engagement against pro-Franco repression and collaborates to the SIA (International Solidarity Antifascist) whose objective is to organize the international aid with Spain. At the end of the Fifties, he settles in South America where his trace is lost.

The work Images de l'Espagne Franquiste, published in 1947 in Paris by the National alliance of the democratic forces of Spain, is representative of the anarchistic and anti pro-franco production of the Forties. On a text printed in three languages - Spanish, French and English - by the movie director Mateo Santos, Badia-Vilato shows virulent and colorful lithographies which point out his surrealist influence. For proof, the two following reproductions:

Educational system in Spain : Yoke and Arrows

vision of death

Currently, the librairie Loliée can offer you :

• Badia-Vilato - Santos (Mateo). L'Alliance Nationale des forces démocratiques d'Espagne. Images de l'Espagne Franquiste. [Paris], 1947, in-4, illustrated cover. 1000 copies. One of the 25 first copies on Marais paper, illustrated by 12 lithographies, full page and numbered, by Badia-Vilato.

Le Boeuf sur le toit

Initially composed as the soundtrack of a silent Charlie Chaplin film, Le Bœuf sur le toit becomes a succes when Darius Milhaud transforms his piece into a ballet with a scenario by Jean Cocteau, and with a stage designed by Raoul Dufy. The premiere is given in Paris, en 1920, at the Comédie des Champs-Elysées. This "cinema-symphony based on South American Airs (the title is, by the way, the one of an old brazilian tango) captivates the audience. The decor is that of a bar frequented by several characters : a bookmaker, a dwarf, a boxer, a woman dressed in man's clothing, a policeman who is decapitated by the blades of an overhead fan before he is revived... The Fratellini brothers, famous clowns of the Medrano Circus, were part of the first cast. The choreography was deliberately very slow, in marked contrast to the lively and joyful spirit of the music.
The same year, The Editions de la Sirène release the music score, illustrated by a lithography of Raoul Dufy. (source : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_B%C5%93uf_sur_le_toit_(Darius_Milhaud)

Currently, the librairie Loliée can offer :

• [Cocteau - Milhaud - Dufy] - Le Boeuf sur le Toit. First Edition with Jean Cocteau's preface et first release of Darius Milhaud's music score. Original lithography by Raoul Dufy in fronstispiece.

Annual closing

Dear readers,
The bookshop will be closed from July, 31 to September, 2.
See you for the reopening.

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.