Paul JOUVE

Edition printed on cream-colored Rives vellum and illustrated with five original drawings engraved on copper by Paul Jouve, hand-colored with pochoir by Edmond Vairel.
Handsome copy despite small foxing spots on the boards, endpapers and edges.

First edition of this catalogue gathering animal drawings, paintings and sculptures exhibited at the Edgar Brandt gallery in Paris from November 25 to December 25, 1930.
Three stains on the first cover.
Catalogue illustrated with 27 photographs.
Among the works presented: sculptures by François Pompon, Raymond Bigot, Georges Artemoff, Marguerite de Bayser Gratry, Simone Boutarel, drawings by Paul Jouve, Pierre Colin, André Margat, Camille Roche...
Rare.

Rare original lithograph, executed by Paul Jouve for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 6 published in October 1897.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins, artist's signature in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, numbered luxury edition stamp on the verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard captioned with the artist's name, the title, an extract from a work by A. Malfilatre and a presentation text; blank tissue guard.
"It is with a pencil already sure of itself, a very powerful firmness of drawing and also a very thorough knowledge that Jouve, the animal artist, has rendered for us this imaginatively picturesque page of monkey life".
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which, unlike other reviews such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created specially by each artist for the review. Thus 100 prints appeared in total, covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each delivery of four prints was issued in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F.
This print of handsome format is superbly printed on the most prestigious of papers: Japan. Thick, silky, satiny and pearlescent, it contributes to making each page a complete work in itself. Its ink absorption quality and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very beautiful lithographs.
The interest of French collectors in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne, to describe this fever, invented the term "affichomania". The poster, originally popular and posted on the streets of the capital, then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation.
Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the deluxe illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works, by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc.
Handsome copy of a work of witty humor by this famous animal painter.

Rare original lithograph executed by Paul Jouve for L'Estampe Moderne, series number 6 published in October 1897.
One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins, artist's signature and date in the plate, publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin, mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered luxury edition stamp on the verso, pale marginal foxing.
"It is with a pencil already sure of itself, a very powerful firmness of drawing and also a very thorough knowledge that Jouve, the animal artist, has rendered for us this imaginatively picturesque page of monkey life".
Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899, L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which, unlike other reviews such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards, were created specially by each artist for the review. Thus 100 prints appeared in total, covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelites, Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each delivery of four prints was issued in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F.
This print of handsome format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China. "Despite all its qualities, China paper, too insubstantial, owes its reputation not to its own beauty, but rather to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture, smooth and soft together, is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful printing. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings..." (Anatole France).
The interest of French collectors in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne, to describe this fever, invented the term "affichomania". The poster, originally popular and posted on the streets of the capital, then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation.
Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the deluxe illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works, by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure, Eugène Grasset, Henri Detouche, Emile Berchmans, Louis Rhead, Gaston de Latenay, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Gustave-Max Stevens, Charles Doudelet, Hans Christiansen, Henri Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Ibels, Engels, Willette, Henri Meunier, Evenepoël, Bellery-Desfontaines, Charles Léandre, etc.
Handsome copy of a work of witty humor by this famous animal painter.

first edition printed 200 numbered copies printed on the presses destroyed, Mourlot and Mousset.
Book illustrated with 42 lithographs by Paul Jouve, François Renoyer Lucien Jonas, Billiemaz Miss, Miss P. Pesqueux Guillaume Desgranges, Ray Lambert, Gustave Bonel, Mery L. Gaston Prost, Miss Denise Fontanel, R. Mahelin Miss Fiacre Gabriel Beunke Miss ML Monnoyer, Poulbot (2), C. Dubin, A. Bouxin Pierre Vaillant, Galoyer, Miss J. Sailly, André Marrot Roger Vauzelles, Georges Dargouge, Miss Jacqueline Adam, Miss J . Fouillet Jean Duroeulx, Gobo, René Jaudon, J. Bétourné Jean Julien, Ms S. Fontanel, Miss G. Guenot, A. Muselier, André Elie, Miss Jeanne Thil, Jean Bouchaud, Georges Villa, ODV Guillonnet, Charles Fouqueray .
Most lithographs are justified and signed by the artists.
Some tears with marginal gaps on the shirt, nice interior state.