JARRY (Alfred) & Remy de GOURMONT. L'Ymagier.... - Lot 258 - Ferri & Associés

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JARRY (Alfred) & Remy de GOURMONT. L'Ymagier.... - Lot 258 - Ferri & Associés
JARRY (Alfred) & Remy de GOURMONT. L'Ymagier. Paris, Imprimerie Charles Renaudie, n° 1-8 ; October 1894-December 1896. 8 issues bound in two volumes in-4 (256 x 201 mm and 278 x 220 mm) : half calf in Bradel style, covers preserved (period). Complete collection of the journal founded and directed by Remy de Gourmont and Alfred Jarry. Quarterly review sponsored by Remy de Gourmont's friend and inspiration, Berthe Courrières, with the financial participation of Alfred Jarry who had just received a small inheritance. The texts are mainly due to the two founders. Alfred Jarry only contributed to the first five issues. After his quarrel with Remy de Gourmont, he founded in 1896 the competing magazine : Perindherion, which had only two issues. L'Ymagier wanted to renew the art of woodcutting by a return to primitive or popular art. "Images, and nothing more, religious or legendary, with what is necessary of words to say the meaning and convince, by a notion, the inattentive" (Remy de Gourmont I, p. 5). The magazine shows gothic woodcuts, Cranach, Durer and notably 14 large Epinal pictures printed on the original woodcuts (in colour and folded). The return to the sources found an echo in the aesthetic movement undertaken by Emile Bernard and Gauguin. They intended to revive the practice of these vigorous woods cut in the direction of the grain. L'Ymagier, without concern for genre or process, welcomed images, woodcuts and out-of-text lithographs by Armand Seguin, Emile Bernard, Charles Filiger, Georges d'Espagnat, Gauguin, Jarry, Remy de Gourmont. THE ONLY ENGRAVING BY DOUANIER ROUSSEAU : LA GUERRE, A LITHOGRAPHED PEN AND INK DRAWING LITHOGRAPHED PEN-AND-INK DRAWING, PRINTED ON STRONG ORANGE IMITATION PAPER. From James Whistler, an original lithograph printed on Chine, Girl with bowl (Way, n° 82). The copy contains the general cover illustrated with a composition printed in bistre: The Wandering Jew, but not Emile Bernard's Passion, a piece reserved for subscribers only. (From Manet to Hockney, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, n° 11 - Chapon, Le Peintre et le Livre, 1987, pp. 35-36). Nice copy in contemporary binding.
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