(Arthur RIMBAUD & Paul VERLAINE & Victor HUGO & Guy de MAUPASSANT & Emile ZOLA & Paul GAUGUIN & Vincent VAN GOGH...)
Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC & Manuel LUQUE & André GILL & COLL-TOC & Félix REGAMEY & Alexis AXILETTE & REBOUL & Emile COHL & Georges AURIOL & Désiré LUC & Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN & Jean CAILLOU & GIL BAER & Maximilien LUCE & Lucien PISSARRO & Alfred LE PETIT & Albert DUBOIS-PILLET & MOLLOCH & Georges SEURAT & Paul SIGNAC & Louis ANQUETIN & Emile BERNARD & Charles LEANDRE & CARAN D'ACHE & Frédéric-Auguste CAZALS & HENRICUS & Louis BOMBLED & DELFOSSE & Oswald HEIDBRINCK & Adolphe WILLETTE & Fernand FAU & Albert STERNER & G. SMITH & JOB & Léon CHOUBRAC & UZES (Achille LEMOT dit) & Emile LAFORGUE & Jules CHERET & M. REYMOND & ZED & CRAÏB & Henri DEMARE & BRIDET
Les femmes du jour - Collection complète & Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui - Collection quasi complète (33 livraisons manquantes)
Léon Vanier, Paris s.d. (1878-1899) & (1886-1892), 19,5x28,5cm, 5 volumes reliés.
Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui – Almost complete collection (33 issues lacking out of 469)
Les Femmes du jour – Complete collection
Léon Vanier ◇ Paris [1878-1899 & 1886-1892] ◇ 19,5 x 28,5 cm ◇ 5 volumes in half-cloth
First edition of
Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui (33 issues lacking out of 469). Five volumes bound in light blue half-cloth, smooth spines, blue morocco title labels decorated with double filets, marbled paper boards (4 volumes). The color title pages have been preserved and bound in. Marginal tears without damage to the text (no. 163; no. 165; no. 184, p. 2). Marginal restorations without damage to text on 8 leaves between nos. 214 and 223. Two leaves of no. 224 backed. Marginal tear with some paper missing (no. 345, p.1). Format of quires in the first volume varies; some are trimmed more than others.
First edition of
Les Femmes du jour, very rare complete collection in 11 issues published between 1886 and 1892 (the last very rare Réjane issue appeared in 1892, six years after the other 10). Bound in half red cloth, smooth spine, midnight-blue morocco title labels framed in gilt, gilt title lengthwise, marbled paper boards.
An impressive gallery of prominent 19th century women and men caricatured and described by the foremost avant-garde artists and writers of the time. Created by writer Félicien Champsaur and illustrator André Gill in 1878, this exceptional literary and satirical review was later directed by Léon Vanier – the publisher of the
Parnassiens poets – from 1885 to 1899.
Each issue is a portrait of a contemporary figure in the world of arts and letters, politics, science, or technology.
The full set includes 469 monographs written by some of the most provocative voices of the time: Jules Laforgue, Gustave Kahn, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Moréas, Félix Fénéon. The only contributor Vanier ever paid for those written portraits was Paul Verlaine, famously always short of money.
Each issue includes on the front page a large and fine color lithographed caricature by artists such as Manuel Luque, André Gill and Félix Régamey, but also world-renowned painters: Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen, Pissarro, Seurat, Signac, to name a few.
The actress Sarah Bernhardt was so famous, she appeared both in the men-issue (Hommes d'aujourd'hui) as well as one of the very rare women-issues (Femmes du jour)!The literary issues cover every school and movement of the second half of the 19th century, including
Buveurs d'eau, Vilains bonshommes, Hydropathes, Parnassiens, Naturalists
, Decadents
, Symbolists and
Incohérents. There is also a number of avant-garde painters belonging to the Pont Aven school (Schuffenecker, Pissarro, Emile Bernard, Maximilien Luce), the circle of the Montmartre
Affichistes (Chéret, Willette, Caran d'Ache, Georges Auriol, Job, Steinlen), as well as Post-Impressionnists (Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Anquetin), Pointillists (Signac, Seurat), and Symbolists (Redon). Musicians are also featured, with fine portraits of Gounot, Massenet, Verdi, Camille Saint-Saëns, Rubinstein and Reyer.
An exceptional and rare set bearing witness to the free spirit of 19th century French intellectuals and artists.
10 000 €
Réf : 83249
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