SADE Justine et Suite libre avec spécimen 1976
SADE Justine et Suite libre avec spécimen 1976
Our set consists of 3 volumes & a promotional flyer.
A promotional copy of Justine by Sade.
A two-volume set: "Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue" by Sade & her free suite of colour illustrations.
A promotional flyer.
Dubout unleashes his pencil, his attraction to eroticism is pushed to its height. A few years earlier, he had already opened this path with the 1973 book "Kama soutra". Here, the drawings are much more raw, illustrating the sadomasochistic scenes of the sadist imagination. The erotic scenes and the sexes are no longer hidden, but frontal. The creations are made in the taste of the 18th century, the costumes, decorations, or torture machine.
The misfortunes of the unfortunate Justine, an orphan who, at first accused of theft, is going to follow the cruellest misadventures. Trying to survive in this lowly world, she will only encounter madness, treachery, perversity, cowardice and cruelty. In spite of everything, Justine remains attached to her values and does not deny her faith or her virtue. Rejecting the gentle Rousseauist nature, Sade reveals the evil that is in us and in life. The virtuous Justine confides her misfortunes and remains the embodiment of virtue in the most scabrous details. The Marquis de Sade's work is an apology for crime, for the freedom of bodies and spirits, for cruelty, for "extreme sensitivity of the organs known only to delicate beings", and it astonishes or scandalizes. "It seems to be, says Klossowski, only one desperate cry, launched in the image of the inaccessible virginity, a cry enveloped and as if set in a canticle of blasphemy. "It is also a work of delirious poetry and full of black humour.
Paris, Michèle Trinckvel editions, 1976. Full black leather binding for the 2 volumes of Justine, numbered 3666 out of 6000, original iron, gilt head, illustrated cover pages and deluxe case. Justine's novel has 326 pages and the suite has 78 illustrations, 8 of which are in folio.
The voluminous promotional specimen (200 pages) has a dummy spine glued inside the first cover.
SADE's 4-page brochure, including a photograph of Dubout, as well as a reproduction of a postcard sent by Dubout shortly before his death, and a small note on Dubout's death on 26 June 1976.
Albert Dubout (1905-1976) was commissioned in 1929 by Editions Kra, an audacious choice on the part of the latter, who surprisingly entrusted him with the illustration of classical texts. A path that he would force him to follow in these aesthetic choices, sometimes forcing him to stick to the text. Dubout will notably assert that the work of "mirroring the text" done for "Clochemerle" did not please him. In contrast to the drawings he did for the newspapers, this editorial formula was close to his heart. "There was much greater freedom of means than in the tyrannical press cartoon. It is understandable, for example, that the always hasty deadlines of the newspaper editors did not suit this cartoonist who liked to represent a thousand different heads on his paper, to add new accessories and to constantly tweak them" (in MELOT Michel, "Dubout", Edition Michèle Trinckvel, Montrouge, 1979).
"He is certainly one of the most influential artists of a whole generation of draftsmen and illustrators" (in Dubout.fr) and as such possesses recognizable characteristics such as a rounded line, colourful compositions that compliment the funny aspect of the scenes of life he depicts. Unwittingly heir to Jerome Bosch, Dubout embellishes his productions with a large number of characters participating in both the micro-stages and the main action. These attributes are complemented by a taste for saucy, caricatural and sometimes tumultuous illustrations, making his characters endearing, such as those in The Little Man and The Big Lady. The latter are not without recalling his affection for his native region, the South of France, and particularly Marseille.
Dubout is a "made in France" product par excellence: regionalist, authentic, bon-vivant, educated and talented. He was a student at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, then moved to Paris. He is passionate about the crowds of department stores and transport, which he loves to sketch and caricature. He published his first drawings in "Pêle-Mêle", then collaborated with various magazines and newspapers such as "Ric et Rac", "Marianne", "La Bataille" and "Ici Paris". Dubout also produced posters for cinema, advertising and theatre, such as the one for Marcel Pagnol's "César". His passion for cinema is tenacious, he directed several animated films "Anatole fait du camping" and "Anatole à la tour de Nesle" in 1947 and feature films "La Rue sans loi" in 1950 and "Anatole chéri" in 1954.
Albert Dubout" illustrated more than 80 books, the last of which appeared after his death. He published 27 albums and created 80 cinema and advertising posters. In addition, he created 70 oil paintings including the famous Corridas with their lights and shadows and the Bullfighters" (in Dubout.fr).
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SADE Justine et Suite libre avec spécimen 1976
Our set consists of 3 volumes & a promotional flyer.
A promotional copy of Justine by Sade.
A two-volume set: "Justine or the Misfortunes of Virtue" by Sade & her free suite of colour illustrations.
A promotional flyer.
Dubout unleashes his pencil, his attraction to eroticism is pushed to its height. A few years earlier, he had already opened this path with the 1973 book "Kama soutra". Here, the drawings are much more raw, illustrating the sadomasochistic scenes of the sadist imagination. The erotic scenes and the sexes are no longer hidden, but frontal. The creations are made in the taste of the 18th century, the costumes, decorations, or torture machine.
The misfortunes of the unfortunate Justine, an orphan who, at first accused of theft, is going to follow the cruellest misadventures. Trying to survive in this lowly world, she will only encounter madness, treachery, perversity, cowardice and cruelty. In spite of everything, Justine remains attached to her values and does not deny her faith or her virtue. Rejecting the gentle Rousseauist nature, Sade reveals the evil that is in us and in life. The virtuous Justine confides her misfortunes and remains the embodiment of virtue in the most scabrous details. The Marquis de Sade's work is an apology for crime, for the freedom of bodies and spirits, for cruelty, for "extreme sensitivity of the organs known only to delicate beings", and it astonishes or scandalizes. "It seems to be, says Klossowski, only one desperate cry, launched in the image of the inaccessible virginity, a cry enveloped and as if set in a canticle of blasphemy. "It is also a work of delirious poetry and full of black humour.
Paris, Michèle Trinckvel editions, 1976. Full black leather binding for the 2 volumes of Justine, numbered 3666 out of 6000, original iron, gilt head, illustrated cover pages and deluxe case. Justine's novel has 326 pages and the suite has 78 illustrations, 8 of which are in folio.
The voluminous promotional specimen (200 pages) has a dummy spine glued inside the first cover.
SADE's 4-page brochure, including a photograph of Dubout, as well as a reproduction of a postcard sent by Dubout shortly before his death, and a small note on Dubout's death on 26 June 1976.
Albert Dubout (1905-1976) was commissioned in 1929 by Editions Kra, an audacious choice on the part of the latter, who surprisingly entrusted him with the illustration of classical texts. A path that he would force him to follow in these aesthetic choices, sometimes forcing him to stick to the text. Dubout will notably assert that the work of "mirroring the text" done for "Clochemerle" did not please him. In contrast to the drawings he did for the newspapers, this editorial formula was close to his heart. "There was much greater freedom of means than in the tyrannical press cartoon. It is understandable, for example, that the always hasty deadlines of the newspaper editors did not suit this cartoonist who liked to represent a thousand different heads on his paper, to add new accessories and to constantly tweak them" (in MELOT Michel, "Dubout", Edition Michèle Trinckvel, Montrouge, 1979).
"He is certainly one of the most influential artists of a whole generation of draftsmen and illustrators" (in Dubout.fr) and as such possesses recognizable characteristics such as a rounded line, colourful compositions that compliment the funny aspect of the scenes of life he depicts. Unwittingly heir to Jerome Bosch, Dubout embellishes his productions with a large number of characters participating in both the micro-stages and the main action. These attributes are complemented by a taste for saucy, caricatural and sometimes tumultuous illustrations, making his characters endearing, such as those in The Little Man and The Big Lady. The latter are not without recalling his affection for his native region, the South of France, and particularly Marseille.
Dubout is a "made in France" product par excellence: regionalist, authentic, bon-vivant, educated and talented. He was a student at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, then moved to Paris. He is passionate about the crowds of department stores and transport, which he loves to sketch and caricature. He published his first drawings in "Pêle-Mêle", then collaborated with various magazines and newspapers such as "Ric et Rac", "Marianne", "La Bataille" and "Ici Paris". Dubout also produced posters for cinema, advertising and theatre, such as the one for Marcel Pagnol's "César". His passion for cinema is tenacious, he directed several animated films "Anatole fait du camping" and "Anatole à la tour de Nesle" in 1947 and feature films "La Rue sans loi" in 1950 and "Anatole chéri" in 1954.
Albert Dubout" illustrated more than 80 books, the last of which appeared after his death. He published 27 albums and created 80 cinema and advertising posters. In addition, he created 70 oil paintings including the famous Corridas with their lights and shadows and the Bullfighters" (in Dubout.fr).
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