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Huguette de BOSQUE). Models of children's books. (France, circa 1950). Huguette de BOSQUE). Models of children's books. (France, circa 1950). Two different sets: one with 27 gouaches, size 32.8 x 25.2 cm, each accompanied by a handwritten text in French, plus four gouaches of the same size, plus pencil sketches on tracing paper (30), plus four gouaches (later improved drafts); the other with 30 smaller-format gouaches, 20 x 15 cm, cellophane-protected and mounted in makeshift marie-louise, accompanied by a text in English on loose sheets. A more disparate set of gouaches by the same author is included. Finished model of a 1950s children's book. What we assume to be the author's name appears on a kraft envelope attached to the set. The French version is the most beautiful: it includes thirty full-page, luminous gouaches on colored backgrounds, very typical of the period, but with a certain charm that evokes a slightly conventional wonder that heralds certain mass productions intended to appeal to the greatest number, such as those by Walt Disney. The story is set in the underwater world, and the graphics are irresistibly reminiscent of Disney Studios' The Little Mermaid. The English version takes up the same story, but the size of the gouaches is a little reduced (they've all been redrawn). While the illustrations are not lacking in interest, the text on the other hand is uncharacteristically silly: three young fish decide to attend a Water King's ball, get a little lost, end up seeing the king, the queen, the orchestra, run away, get lost, get scared... What an adventure! What an adventure! If the book has been published in either French or English, it's likely that the text has been revised and "muscled" to give it a vigor it lacks. The illustrations, on the other hand, deserve to be retained, as they bear witness, with a certain talent, to the evolution of the popular children's book in the 1950s, a hesitant period that abandoned the graphic audacity of the 1930s in search of a wider audience that would soon be captured by cinema and television.

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Huguette de BOSQUE). Models of children's books. (France, circa 1950). Huguette de BOSQUE). Models of children's books. (France, circa 1950). Two different sets: one with 27 gouaches, size 32.8 x 25.2 cm, each accompanied by a handwritten text in French, plus four gouaches of the same size, plus pencil sketches on tracing paper (30), plus four gouaches (later improved drafts); the other with 30 smaller-format gouaches, 20 x 15 cm, cellophane-protected and mounted in makeshift marie-louise, accompanied by a text in English on loose sheets. A more disparate set of gouaches by the same author is included. Finished model of a 1950s children's book. What we assume to be the author's name appears on a kraft envelope attached to the set. The French version is the most beautiful: it includes thirty full-page, luminous gouaches on colored backgrounds, very typical of the period, but with a certain charm that evokes a slightly conventional wonder that heralds certain mass productions intended to appeal to the greatest number, such as those by Walt Disney. The story is set in the underwater world, and the graphics are irresistibly reminiscent of Disney Studios' The Little Mermaid. The English version takes up the same story, but the size of the gouaches is a little reduced (they've all been redrawn). While the illustrations are not lacking in interest, the text on the other hand is uncharacteristically silly: three young fish decide to attend a Water King's ball, get a little lost, end up seeing the king, the queen, the orchestra, run away, get lost, get scared... What an adventure! What an adventure! If the book has been published in either French or English, it's likely that the text has been revised and "muscled" to give it a vigor it lacks. The illustrations, on the other hand, deserve to be retained, as they bear witness, with a certain talent, to the evolution of the popular children's book in the 1950s, a hesitant period that abandoned the graphic audacity of the 1930s in search of a wider audience that would soon be captured by cinema and television.

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