Preparatory drawings for the illustrated book Iñes de la Sierras by Charles Nordier

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Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Preparatory drawings for the illustrated book Iñes de la Sierras by Charles Nordier
pencil on paper
10 x 6¾ in. (25.6 x 17.3 cm.) and smaller
Executed circa 1946 (14)

來源

Cécile Richard, Brussels, a gift from the artist.
Félix Richard (son of the above), France, a gift from the above in 1975.
Librairie R.B.P., Lyon, by whom acquired in 2002 from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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This lot includes fourteen drawings (of which three with a blank reserved area for text), four cover projects, two pages with lettrines or chapter headers, a hand-written list of illustrations planned, a page with part of the text in calligraphy, and two letters from artist to the publisher and a letter from the publisher to the artist; and loose within a slipcase designed by J.-L. Tellier.

In 1946 Mrs Richard-Sauvenier from La Licorne Edition in Brussels, commissioned Delvaux to illustrate Charles Nodier's novel Iñes de las Sierras, circa 1841, which tells the dramatic life of the beautiful Iñes. The present lot comprises the original drawings and projects for the book lithographic illustrations. For unknow reasons, the book was never published.