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The Breton soul: paintings, furniture and objets d'art, ceramics, folk art, sculptures, bronzes, silverware

Adjug'Art Quimper - +33298529797 - Email CVV

105, avenue de Kerrien 29000 Quimper, France
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Lot 547 - [CONTES] - SOUVESTRE (Émile) - Le Foyer Breton. Contes et récits populaires - Paris ; Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, 1910 - 1 volume In-4° - 78 out-of-text and in-text etchings by André Dauchez : title vignette, 25 hors texte under captioned serpents, and 50 in text - Very fine period tan morocco binding, signed Gabriel Le Roy-Desrivières, richly polychrome mosaiced with 1 double dark raspberry frame, central brown braces and 4 olive green, violet and brown thistle flowers, coral and brown on the 1st board, and 1 large thistle flower mosaic of dark green, pale green, olive green, coral and violet on the 2nd board lined slipcase - Covers (the 1st in etching) and spine preserved - Quadruple gilt framing and angular fleurons on counter boards lined with beige striped silk, (slightly darkened) spine titled in gold and adorned with 4 mosaic thistle flowers in dark green and havana - Gilt edges on witness - Very fine numbered copy on tinted vellum (no. 88 of 125 copies reserved for Society members, before 15 hors commerce and 10 reserved for artists who contributed to the book) - Bookplate on 1st marbled endpaper of Albert Gorge, MP - Important collection of tales first published in 1844 and regularly reissued. The artist slipped perfectly into these tales, where fairies and witches abound, where the strange vies with the marvelous in 1 poor, rugged Breton land with coasts battered by powerful waves. André Dauchez (1870-1948), a self-taught landscape and marine painter and etcher, worked exclusively from nature. He made his debut in 1894 at the Salon de la Société nationale des Beaux-Arts, which he chaired from 1932 to 1937, before founding the Salon national indépendant. He won 1 silver medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition.

Estim. 500 - 700 EUR