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André Masson - André Maurois. Les Érophages. Gravures originales en couleurs de André Masson. Paris, Les Éditions la Passerelle 1960. Mit 16 blattgroßen Farbaquatintaradierungen sowie drei goldfarbene Radierungen auf dem Umschlag. Lose Doppelbogen in Originalumschlag, bemalter Chemise und Schuber. Ausrufzeit : ca. 15:40 (Zeitplan ohne Gewähr) Eins von 104 Subskriptionsexemplaren für die Mitglieder mit einem zusätzlichen Abzug der zweiten Radierung in Gold auf »Japon Nacré«, ohne Aquatinta jedoch signiert und bezeichnet »Essai« (Gesamtauflage 146). - Im Druckvermerk von Künstler, Autor und Herausgeber signiert. - In Anlehnung an ein Prinzip von Jonathan Swift entwarf André Maurois die Fantasiewelt eines Gulliver-ähnlichen Landes, in dem nicht sexuelles Verlangen, sondern Durst die Rasse antreibt, in deren Lebensraum ein Paar gestrandet ist. Der Durst dieser »Érophagen« wird gestillt, indem sie sich gegenseitig aus einer Brust nähren. Der hier anzutreffende Humor und die Sinnlichkeit der Illustrationen sind in Massons Werk eher selten anzutreffen. (siehe Saphire/Cramer, S. 122). Saphire/Cramer 47. - Monod 7963 45,0 : 35,5 cm. 86, [10] Seiten. - Durchgehend stockfleckig. english description: Includes 16 full-sheet color aquatint etchings and three gold-colored etchings on the cover. Loose double sheets in their original wrapper, together in a painted chemise and slipcase. One of 104 subscription copies for members, with an additional print of the second etching in gold on “Japon Nacré,” without aquatint but signed and inscribed “Essai” (total edition of 146). - Signed in the colophon by the artist, author, and publisher. - »Borrowing a principle from Jonathan Swift, as he acknowledges in his introduction, André Maurois concocted a fantasy of a Gulliverian land where thirst, rather than sexual hunger, drives the race in whose habitat a couple are marooned. The thirst of these ›érophages‹ is assuaged by feeding one another from a breast which is part of the right arm. Their culture, therefore, has idealized in art not the nude or the female bosom but the arm with its ›private‹ part. Lovemaking, on the other hand, is accepted with the same public nonchalance as is drinking in the normal world. With the nonchalance accorded to sexuality and the passion devoted to feeding from the effectively sexual ›armbreast‹, Maurois has given Masson subject matter which is doubly erotic. Not only is there a certain amount of humor in Masson's illustrations, aside from the introductory portrait of the author, but the sensuousness of these illustrations, particularly in their coloration, is rarely found even in Masson's work.« (Saphire/Cramer, p. 122). Foxing throughout.
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