Dessins de Rouveyre ~ Presentation copy from Rouveyre to Anatole France, 1911
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Dessins de Rouveyre
Mort de L’Amour avec, en appendice, une prose de Jean Moreas
Edition du Mercure de France, 26 rue de conde, Paris 1911,
André Rouveyre (1879-1962),– Graphic artist, caricaturist, satirical writer and the life-long friend of Matisse who he met in the atelier of Gustave Moreau in 1896. Rouveyre was part of the avant-garde circle and la vie bohème of Montparnasse and the subject of portraits by his friends Modigliani, Marquet and Matisse (who provided the illustrations for Rouveyre’s novel Repli. He also published a book about his friend Guillaume Apollinaire and provided a frontispiece portrait of the poet for Apollinaire’s La Poète assassiné, 1916.
Copy No 107 of 1000 on Velin D’Arches paper. Elegant Art Nouveau font and ornamental devices. Eight bold woodcut illustrations by Rouveyre. Fresh copy within.
Original wrappers preserved within quarter leather binding which is somewhat worn. Good clam-shell case with green leather labels.
~ Presentation copy with inscription from Rouveyre to Anatole France, 1911.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921 was awarded to Anatole France “in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament”
Rouveyre’s warm presentation inscription to the author seems to be somewhat disingenuous – shortly before the celebration of Anatole France’s eightieth birthday Rouveyre wrote of Anatole France :
– “The most significant representative of those writers who have paraded the greatest vanity and ostentatiously displayed their own superiority is undoubtedly Anatole France. . .He is the last and most perfect type of what seems to us most out of date…”