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Louis JOU

Femme alanguie

Début XXème, 47 x 66 cm (60 x 80 cm avec marie-louise), Dessin à l'encre et au fusain, signé par l'artiste en bas à gauche..

Original drawing in ink embellished charcoal (mixed media). Artist's signature in the lower left corner of the work. Very nice condition. JOU Louis (1881-1968) was a painter and typographer of Spanish origin. He became a painter in words at the age of 16. This is the time of his exaltation and his dreams of artistic success in Paris. In 1906, Louis Jou left for France and joined his friend Joseph Civil organist. He rubs Guillaume Apollinaire and Francis Carco. In 1908, he met François Bernouard, poet, printer and publisher with whom he created the Belle Edition which says his talent as a typographer, engraver and composer of beautiful texts. He attended Derain, Picasso and secures orders in the journal luxury Cocteau "Scheherazade." In 1921 he met the writer André Suares gives rise to the friendship of a lifetime. He fulfilled his dream and reports from Spain's own typeface. In 1939, he left Paris and took refuge in the Leases, where he restores the house was acquired in 1921, the splendid Renaissance Jean de Brion. He composes, alone in his studio, facing his home, his finest works entitled "Books of Louis Jou": "The 24 sonnets" Louise Labbé, "Adolphe" Benjamin Constant, "The Dance of Death," "The baussenques bucolic "," The Song of Songs. " Among the largest printers of the century, instead of Louis Jou is exceptional. He is alone among his peers to have designed and produced a book entirely by himself. Xylographe engraver metal Jou draws its own background and character. Going back to the fifteenth century in search of a healthy revival of typography, he instinctively joined the intellectual approach of researchers in Europe in the second half of the last century, had felt the need a reaction to the growing mechanization and excesses of all kinds in the design of the book. Having reconciled the northern Spanish rigor and harshness, the fact remains that the strong personality of Jou - who was a disciple of person - frees him from any influence and can impose in turn an original work both in the typographic art in his pictorial creations. This Catalan who adopted this country (naturalized in 1927) was a book designer whose influence, after a distinguished career of more than half a century, was one of the most decisive in the evolution contemporary book.

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