First edition.
Publisher's binding in full boards, smooth spine, front cover illustrated with a reproduction of a gouache by Joan Miro.
Texts by Alain Jouffroy, Robert Lebel, Jacques Dupin...
Work illustrated with numerous color and black illustrations as well as 1 original color lithograph specially executed for the XXe Siècle magazine by Joan Miro.
Handsome copy despite a stain at the foot of the spine.
Publisher's wraparound band included.
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full flexible boards, smooth spine, front cover illustrated with an original lithograph by Giuseppe Capogrossi.
Texts by Alain Jouffroy, André Verdet, Jacques Lassaigne, Jean-Clarence Lambert...
Work decorated with numerous illustrations in color and black and white as well as 2 original color lithographs by Wifredo Lam and Marino Marini.
Small light stains on the spine, handsome interior condition.
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full boards, smooth spine, front cover illustrated with a reproduction of a work by Giorgio de Chirico.
Texts by Alain Jouffroy, Robert Lebel, Patrick Walberg, Julien Clay...
Work decorated with numerous illustrations in color and black and white as well as 1 original color lithograph specially executed for the magazine XXe Siècle by Franco Gentilini.
Small tears on one joint and on the edges, handsome interior condition.
Original edition on ordinary paper. Publisher’s binding in full cream cloth, smooth spine, title label and an image pasted on the upper cover, complete with clasp and ribbon. Illustrated with one press clipping and a postcard depicting Millet’s The Angelus. A pleasant copy.
First edition of each volume.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt typographical motifs, a small black stain in margin of first board, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Illustrated with a portrait of Lantara as frontispiece and a reproduction of a painting for the first volume; a portrait of Miger as frontispiece of the second volume.
Some light foxing without much significance.
First edition printed in a small number of copies on laid paper.
Precious and rare signed autograph inscription from Paul Lintier: " A mon vieux Béraud avec toute mon amitié..." ["To my old friend Béraud with all my friendship..."]
Preface by Henri Béraud.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Adrien Bas by Francisque Laurent.
Three lacks to spine, small marginal lacks to boards which also show a light dampstain, handsome interior condition.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on the Île de Ré.
Born in 1821 in Laval, Charles Landelle moved to Paris at the age of four, then entered the École Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1837 as a student of Paul Delaroche and Ary Scheffer. At the beginning of his career, Landelle painted several portraits to make ends meet. Very influenced by Italian painting after travels in the South of France and Italy, he copied some canvases by the great masters of the Renaissance at the Louvre. Awarded at the Salon from his first exhibitions for Fra Angelo recevant les inspirations de Dieu (1842) or Sainte Cécile (1848), he distinguished himself through religious and historical subjects that allowed him to gain recognition from the high society of his time. His critical successes at the Salon quickly assured him numerous State commissions, notably Le Repos de la Vierge in 1854 which earned him decoration with the cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor. That same year he created in pastel the portrait of Alfred de Musset, today preserved at the Louvre Museum. The artist thus embraced a career as an official painter between State commissions and portraits of members of high society. Capable of adapting to the taste and fashions of his time, Landelle quickly gained a notoriety that he knew how to maintain, never forgetting to offer a portrait or a canvas to his benefactors. In the second part of his career, after the official part of it had somewhat run out of steam, the artist made numerous trips to Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and devoted himself to Orientalism which would occupy a large part of his production until his death in 1908.
Today a certain number of his works is preserved in museums. An important collection was bequeathed to his native city, Laval, but we also find some of his works at the Louvre Museum, the Ingres Museum in Montauban, the Museum of Fine Arts in Grenoble, Pau, Rouen or at the Palace of Versailles.
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