Pierre-Yves
TRÉMOIS
[OPPIAN]
Cynégétique
Paris: Société des Cent Une, 1955
(French and Greek, with an introduction by Marguerite Yourcenar.)
Vol. I: folio (15 x 11-3/4 in.; 380 x 300 mm). Facing original drawings of title and adult monkey grooming infant, signed by Trémois, tipped in, and 35 etchings and aquatints by the artist, some double-page. Full crushed light brown jansenist morocco by Georges Cretté, tan silk doublures, uncut edges gilt, spine tooled in gold and brown; original wrappers bound in; ; in a quarter-morocco clamshell box by Nello Nanni, the hand-milled flax cover paper uniquely marbled by Iris Nevins. With the leather bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. No. 25 of 39 copies (of 140) reserved for associates; signed on the colophon page by the president and vice-president of the Société des Cent Une and by the artist. Collates 4 ff., v, [1] pp., 1 f., 75, [2] pp., [2] ff., [32] pp., [2] ff., [39] pp., 3 ff., 1 blank f., 1 f., [4] double-page.
Vol. II: imperial folio (26-1/2 x 17-1/4 in.; 675 x 440 mm.). Original drawing and calligraphic title by Trémois, inscribed by the artist to Francis Kettaneh, followed by 27 etchings and aquatints in the first state on unfolded double pages, each signed in ink by the artist. Iris Nevin's marbled flax paper over quarter-vellum covers, in Nello Nanni's quarter-morocco clamshell box. Unique volume created for Francis Kettaneh.
Francis Kettaneh acquired three special sets illustrated by Trémois directly at the original issue in the 1950's, being the Adonis of La Fontaine, the Pasiphaë, Le Chant de Minos of Montherlant and this one. All three passed directly from Kettaneh's estate into the inventory of H.P. Kraus, who himself enjoyed an amicable personal acquaintance with Trémois. Of the three, this production has by far the superior artistic merit, in terms of the overall graphic quality and interest of the illustrations.
Born 1921, Trémois studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1943 won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome de Peinture. Elevated to the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France in 1978, he holds one of the four chairs of the Fourth Section, Gravure. Bestaires, as this one, are centerpieces in his art, and La Fontaine's monkey is an icon for Trémois himself: "Venez, Singe; parlez le premier, et pour cause."
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[OPPIAN]
Cynégétique
Paris: Société des Cent Une, 1955
(French and Greek, with an introduction by Marguerite Yourcenar.)
Vol. I: folio (15 x 11-3/4 in.; 380 x 300 mm). Facing original drawings of title and adult monkey grooming infant, signed by Trémois, tipped in, and 35 etchings and aquatints by the artist, some double-page. Full crushed light brown jansenist morocco by Georges Cretté, tan silk doublures, uncut edges gilt, spine tooled in gold and brown; original wrappers bound in; ; in a quarter-morocco clamshell box by Nello Nanni, the hand-milled flax cover paper uniquely marbled by Iris Nevins. With the leather bookplate of Francis Kettaneh. No. 25 of 39 copies (of 140) reserved for associates; signed on the colophon page by the president and vice-president of the Société des Cent Une and by the artist. Collates 4 ff., v, [1] pp., 1 f., 75, [2] pp., [2] ff., [32] pp., [2] ff., [39] pp., 3 ff., 1 blank f., 1 f., [4] double-page.
Vol. II: imperial folio (26-1/2 x 17-1/4 in.; 675 x 440 mm.). Original drawing and calligraphic title by Trémois, inscribed by the artist to Francis Kettaneh, followed by 27 etchings and aquatints in the first state on unfolded double pages, each signed in ink by the artist. Iris Nevin's marbled flax paper over quarter-vellum covers, in Nello Nanni's quarter-morocco clamshell box. Unique volume created for Francis Kettaneh.
Francis Kettaneh acquired three special sets illustrated by Trémois directly at the original issue in the 1950's, being the Adonis of La Fontaine, the Pasiphaë, Le Chant de Minos of Montherlant and this one. All three passed directly from Kettaneh's estate into the inventory of H.P. Kraus, who himself enjoyed an amicable personal acquaintance with Trémois. Of the three, this production has by far the superior artistic merit, in terms of the overall graphic quality and interest of the illustrations.
Born 1921, Trémois studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1943 won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome de Peinture. Elevated to the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France in 1978, he holds one of the four chairs of the Fourth Section, Gravure. Bestaires, as this one, are centerpieces in his art, and La Fontaine's monkey is an icon for Trémois himself: "Venez, Singe; parlez le premier, et pour cause."
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