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Watercolors by Jean-Paul ALAUX during his eight-month trip to Polynesia in 1936-1937. Bibliography: Christel Haffner Lance, Visions japonaises de Jean-Paul Alaux. Du Bassin d'Arcachon au Pacifique, Arcachon, La Librairie Générale, 2018 We would like to thank Madame Christel Haffner Lance for the information she kindly provided on these drawings. Jean Paul ALAUX 1875-1955 Félicie Tetuanu, granddaughter of Tarahu and great-niece of Pierre Loti Watercolor, signed and dated "August 3, 1937" lower right, annotated at the top and on the right-hand side. 26.5 x 19 cm On the reverse, handwritten by the painter: "Tarahu - Loti's little niece JP Alaux, 12 rue Albert de Mun, Bordeaux. Departure from Papeete, July 17, 1937 This portrait was done by me, during a crossing from Tahiti to Marseille. It shows Félicie Tétuanui, Tarahu's granddaughter, who was a friend of Pierre Loti's brother, a naval doctor. Pierre Loti's brother had two sons by her, and Félicie is the daughter of the elder of the two boys. This friend of Loti's brother was called Tarahu. Loti took on the adventure of his brother who had just died, and it was this Tarahu that he made the Rarahu of his novel. JP Alaux (payable to Commissaire Ramel) Félicie was on her way to Lesparre to join a man named Bariac, a veterinary surgeon in Tahiti. Félicie showed me photos of her father (Loti's nephew). The family resemblance was striking. It was the same upturned head carriage, with its hard, austere stare and determined jawline. Félicie recalled Loti's tale of regret at the eviction, in which he searches in vain, with great anxiety, for his brother's children." Expert: Ms Elisabeth MARECHAUX-LAURENTIN, for Cabinet MARECHAUX We would like to thank Mr.Sébastien LEBOUCHER, from the "documentation / collections inventory" department of the Rochefort museums, for sharing with us the comments of Mr.Alain Quella-Villéger, Pierre Loti's biographer, who states: "Loti had concluded that neither of Tarahu's two sons was Gustave's! What's interesting is to learn that the aforementioned Tarahu, whose identity had thus been proven, still told her side of the story. Loti being famous, it was undoubtedly profitable! It's true that Raymond Roussel was shown Rarahu's tomb, which never existed, so the legends went on...".

Estim. 700 - 1 000 EUR

Schuiten/Original drawing symbolically illustrating a hand held back by barbed wire that manages to get through a wall... a powerful work created for the French newspaper Libération in January 2008 about the situation in Gaza, which is unfortunately still relevant today. India ink, watercolor and grease pencil. Signed. TBE+. Pass included: 58 X 45 cm François Schuiten (1956) was just 16 when his drawings were published for the first time: "Mutation", a short story drawn entirely in bic, appeared in the Belgian edition of Pilote. At the Institut Saint-Luc comics workshop, he met Claude Renard, with whom he produced two albums: Aux médianes de Cymbiola and Le Rail, published by Casterman under the title Métamorphoses. Over the years, he and his brother Luc developed the "Terres creuses" cycle in Métal Hurlant. Since 1982, he has been working with his childhood friend Benoît Peeters on the "Les Cités obscures" series. These albums have been translated into ten languages and won numerous awards. It remains considered one of the major series of recent decades. The album La Fièvre d'Urbicande won the Best Album award at the Angoulême Festival in 1985. In 2002, François Schuiten was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême, the ultimate accolade for any cartoonist. He has designed a dozen stamps for the Belgian postal service. He has also designed countless posters, illustrations, serigraphs and lithographs. In 2019, he produced a new album of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer for Dargaud, but on the bangs of the series. A special edition in a style completely different from that of Edgar P. Jacobs, one of his great masters. A Blake et Mortimer à la Schuiten, with the help of Thomas Gunzig on the script (and to a lesser extent Jaco Van Dormael) and the Durieux brothers for their graphic contributions and coloring. In parallel with this project, François Schuiten is part of the ScanPyramids mission led by engineer Mehdi Tayoubi. This is a scientific expedition to Egypt where archaeologists and other specialists descend to the center of Khéops to unravel the mystery of the largest of the pyramids, the only vestige of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Starting price  1800 EUR

Manara/Original drawing illustrating an erotic scene between two women and a man. Signed and no. 12. India ink and watercolor for a portfolio. Superb quality of execution by the master of eroticism for this atypical composition where the women take control of the situation...India ink and watercolor done for a portfolio. TBE+. 40 X 30cm Milo Manara (1945) was an Italian cartoonist who, like most of his local colleagues, got his start at the age of twenty-four, blacking out pages of fumetti, the inexpensive fascicles that made transalpine newsstands happy. He made a name for himself and his style during the 70s, moving from satire to children's books, from fantasy serials to pirate tales. Nothing yet set him apart from the compact pack of his hard-working colleagues. In 1976, with Le Singe, notably translated in France by Charlie Mensuel, he signed his first truly personal work. This was followed by L'Homme des Neiges and, above all, the bewildering HP and Giuseppe Bergman. The initials HP are none other than those of Hugo Pratt, to whom Manara pays his first tribute. The two men were already friends. In 1981, Hugo Pratt returned the compliment to Manara, designing the screenplay for the formidable Indian Summer, followed by The Gaucho, which Manara completed just before his mentor's death in 1993. Manara drew the first volume of Le Déclic in 1983. The album immediately earned him a sulphurous reputation - and huge success. Later, with Le Déclic n° 2 and Le Parfum de l'Invisible, he became THE erotic artist of the 80s. In 1987, for Federico Fellini, Manara designed the posters for Intervista and La Voce della Luna, before drawing two of his unfilmed scripts, Le Voyage à Tullum and Le Voyage de G. Mastorna. On this occasion, the filmmaker wrote that "the pencils, Indian inks and halftones of our friend Manara are the equivalent of the staging, costumes, actors' faces, sets and lighting with which I tell my stories in my films". Later, Manara borrowed from Gulliver's Travels his Gulliveriana, a highly feminine and seductive alter ego of Jonathan Swift's character. The first chapter of Aphrodite arrived in 1999, with an illustration of Pierre Louÿs' sultry novel. For Humanoïdes Associés, Manara also produced a comic adaptation of an ancient erotic novel, La Métamorphose de Lucius. Publication in 2004 by Albin Michel of the Borgia series. The Borgia clan conjures up a sulphurous image: poisonings, Caesar Borgia the enlightened despot, Lucrezia the venomous beauty. Manara has embarked on a reconstruction of the Italian Renaissance period that is so dear to him, and Jodorowsky offers us a saga based on historically recognized facts. Published by Albin Michel, Kama Sutra is Manara's vision of love. Based on a screenplay by Vincenzo Cerami, he directed Les yeux de Pandora, a diabolical thriller in which family secrets are revealed in the midst of hectic action... More recently, he has taken on the American superhero genre with a female version of the X-Women.This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

Starting price  2500 EUR

Tillieux/César et Enestine. Original plate #17 illustrating a very "witty" gag published in the journal moustique. India ink and blue pencil circa 1970. Superb and amusing collector's item in perfect condition. Quality frame with anti-reflective glass included (Schleiper): 55 X 45 cm Born in Huy in 1921 and died in 1978, Maurice Tillieux was destined for a career in the merchant navy, when the German invasion deprived him of any opportunity to pursue this profession. From 1947 to 1956, Tillieux developed his talent in the full-length weekly HEROïc-ALBUMS, where he became a master of humorous and atmospheric detective stories. In keeping with his maritime nostalgia, he began with the perilous cruises of the radio operator "Bob Bang". He went on to write a dozen realistic stories, often inspired by American cartoonists, but it was with the development of the "Félix, Allume-Gaz and Cabarez" trio that he discovered his true calling, producing some fifty episodes in which humor, mystery and action were finely balanced. With the demise of Heroïc-Albums, he finally became a Dupuis star, with "Marc Jaguar" for the short-lived weekly Risque-Tout, "Gil Jourdan" investigations for Spirou and "César" gags for Le Moustique. Towards the end of the '60s, drawing began to weigh on him, and the storyteller in him began to awaken. He entrusted the graphic side of "Gil Jourdan" to Gos, and turned mainly to scripting for Francis ("La Ford T"), René Follet ("S.O.S. Bagarreur"), Arthur Piroton ("Jess Long"), Will ("Tif et Tondu"), Roba ("La Ribambelle"), Leonardo Vittorio ("Hultrasson"), Walthéry ("Natacha"), etc... The man who imagined and drew so much vehicle destruction died in a road accident in France.

Current bid 1600 EUR

Stibane et Franquin/Noël et L'éalaoin. Original end plate from the 4-page story "Retrouvailles" published in the 1990 album of the same name. Superb quality of execution in collaboration with the master. India ink and graphite. Signed and contextualized by the author. Circa 1990. TBE+. Rare. 33 X 22 cm Luc Van Linthout (1958), alias Stibane, graduated in plastic arts from the Institut Saint-Luc. In addition to illustration, he has devoted himself to comics and painting. Stibane first appeared in Tintin in 19864. He produced Woody et Willy, then Peticric, based on a script by Michel Dusart. In comics, Stibane produced the 1989 revival of Petit Noël, under Franquin's direction (Marsu Productions). He also drew the comic adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, with André-Paul Duchâteau on the script, for Editions Lefrancq, in the "BDétectives" collection. Three albums appeared in the early 1990s6. With his brother as scriptwriter, he draws the series Les Enquêtes Scapola (three albums with Casterman). Also with Georges Van Linthout and Didgé, he adapted the TV series Caméra Café (five albums from 2003 to 2006, published by Jungle). In 2006, he also produced a comic book about French humorists Chevallier and Laspales. In collaboration with Bruno Di Sano, he published the first two volumes of Les Aventures de Fred et Jamy, an adaptation of the TV show C'est pas sorcier. In 2012, with Didgé and Georges Van Linthout, he produced a comic adaptation of the TV series Camping paradis.

Current bid 510 EUR
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