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Baudoin/Carla. Orignal drawing "Conversation with Death" created for an ex-libris of the Brussels bookshop B-gevaar, to mark the album's release. Beautifully executed in the artist's distinctive style. India ink and gouache. Signed and dated 1993. Very rare. TBE+. 20 X 30 cm Edmond Baudoin (1942) was a French cartoonist who published his first short comic strips in Canard Sauvage in 1974, then in Circus, Pilote and l'Écho des Savanes. Civilisation, his first album published by Glénat in 1981, is a collection of some of these early works. Deepening his impressionistic, suggestive graphic style, he went on to publish a series of breathtaking works with Futuropolis: Les sentiers cimentés (1981), Passe le temps (1982), La peau du lézard (1983), Un flip coca (1984), Un rubis sur les lèvres (1986), Le premier voyage (1987), Le Portrait (1990), Couma Aco (1991). When this publisher was taken over by Editions Gallimard and limited to showcasing literary texts, he illustrated works by Le Clézio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Jean Genet. Scriptwriter Frank Reichert joined forces with Baudoin from 1984 to 1988 to create a series of stories pre-published in Chic, Zoulou and Métal Aventures, before being collected in albums: La danse devant le buffet (Futuropolis, 1985), Avis de recherche (Futuropolis, 1985), Théâtre d'ombres (Humanoïdes Associés, 1987) and La Croisée (Humanoïdes Associés, 1988). During the same period, Baudoin also worked with Jacques Lob for the monthly magazine A Suivre: Intérieur Noir (1986) and Carla (1988, published as an album by Futuropolis in 1993). The artist then turned to the small alternative publishers that were beginning to flourish on the bangs of traditional production: Z'Editions (La mort du peintre in 1995 and a few illustrated books), Autrement (participation in L'Argent roi in 1994), Apogée (La diagonale des jours, based on a script by Dohollan in 1995), L'Association (Éloge de la poussière in 1995, then Nam, Made in U.S., Le voyage, etc.). Le Voyage won the Alph'Art prize for best screenplay at Angoulême in January 1997. Edmond Baudoin is an intimate and strongly autobiographical storyteller, regularly questioning the relationship between an artist and his work. Les Yeux dans le mur (Eyes in the Wall), his first work in color for the Aire Libre collection, is a perfect illustration of this, as it was composed four-handed with the collaboration of a young admirer and model, Céline Wagner.
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Baudoin/Carla. Orignal drawing "Conversation with Death" created for an ex-libris of the Brussels bookshop B-gevaar, to mark the album's release. Beautifully executed in the artist's distinctive style. India ink and gouache. Signed and dated 1993. Very rare. TBE+. 20 X 30 cm Edmond Baudoin (1942) was a French cartoonist who published his first short comic strips in Canard Sauvage in 1974, then in Circus, Pilote and l'Écho des Savanes. Civilisation, his first album published by Glénat in 1981, is a collection of some of these early works. Deepening his impressionistic, suggestive graphic style, he went on to publish a series of breathtaking works with Futuropolis: Les sentiers cimentés (1981), Passe le temps (1982), La peau du lézard (1983), Un flip coca (1984), Un rubis sur les lèvres (1986), Le premier voyage (1987), Le Portrait (1990), Couma Aco (1991). When this publisher was taken over by Editions Gallimard and limited to showcasing literary texts, he illustrated works by Le Clézio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Jean Genet. Scriptwriter Frank Reichert joined forces with Baudoin from 1984 to 1988 to create a series of stories pre-published in Chic, Zoulou and Métal Aventures, before being collected in albums: La danse devant le buffet (Futuropolis, 1985), Avis de recherche (Futuropolis, 1985), Théâtre d'ombres (Humanoïdes Associés, 1987) and La Croisée (Humanoïdes Associés, 1988). During the same period, Baudoin also worked with Jacques Lob for the monthly magazine A Suivre: Intérieur Noir (1986) and Carla (1988, published as an album by Futuropolis in 1993). The artist then turned to the small alternative publishers that were beginning to flourish on the bangs of traditional production: Z'Editions (La mort du peintre in 1995 and a few illustrated books), Autrement (participation in L'Argent roi in 1994), Apogée (La diagonale des jours, based on a script by Dohollan in 1995), L'Association (Éloge de la poussière in 1995, then Nam, Made in U.S., Le voyage, etc.). Le Voyage won the Alph'Art prize for best screenplay at Angoulême in January 1997. Edmond Baudoin is an intimate and strongly autobiographical storyteller, regularly questioning the relationship between an artist and his work. Les Yeux dans le mur (Eyes in the Wall), his first work in color for the Aire Libre collection, is a perfect illustration of this, as it was composed four-handed with the collaboration of a young admirer and model, Céline Wagner.
