MAUCLAIR CAMILLE [Lobel Riche] - Lot 285

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MAUCLAIR CAMILLE [Lobel Riche] - Lot 285
MAUCLAIR CAMILLE [Lobel Riche] Études de filles Paris, 1910, in-4 full garnet morocco, ribbed spine decorated with mosaic Art Nouveau twists, decorations repeated on the boards. Date on tail. Wide bands of morocco inside, gilt fillets, matching garnet and gilt brocaded silk endpapers. Witnessed gilt edges. Bordered case. Signed binding by Blanchetière. 40 etchings and a cover illustrated by Alméry Lobel-Riche. The etchings were printed in Porcaboeuf's studio. One of 150 copies printed on Arches vellum, watermarked with the publisher's name. Enriched with a superb ORIGINAL DRAWING of a female nude in sepia and black pencil on gray-green paper with dedication by Lobel-Riche bound at the head of the volume. Bound at the end of the volume is an AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM LOBEL-RICHE TO BLANCHETIERE in which he informs BLANCHETIERE that Michaud (the publisher) is bringing a second lawsuit against him. The copy is also ENRICHED with 28 ENGRAVINGS ON DIFFERENT PAPERS (vergé, Japon, Japon Impérial, vélin), all signed in pencil, of different states of the plates used in the work. ONE OF THE ADDED PLATES, A "PISSEUSE" TO BORROW A TITLE FROM PERCEAU, WAS NOT INCLUDED AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION. Carteret IV-268 "Very fine publication, highly rated. One of the artist's best." Mahé II-843. Alméry Lobel-Riche (1880-1950) studied at the Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, then at the Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1895. Often compared to Félicien Rops and Louis Legrand for his taste in depicting the female body, he nonetheless differed from them in a certain gentleness of line. "Rops is refined, Lobel-Riche is popular; Rops is understanding and perverse, Lobel-Riche is wholesome, even when he strives for perversity" (R. Hesse). "It was in Mauclair's Etudes de filles [...] that he revealed himself as a talented artist, studying in his compositions the female form, its fullness and charm, with for certain subjects, a particular gift for observation in voluptuousness and vice." Carteret III-207. Emile Henri Blanchetière (1881-1933), bookbinder and publisher, was a pupil of Lortic and a worker at Kieffer before taking over the workshop of Joseph Bretault, whose daughter he married in 1905. A first-rate copy. Slight foxing on one or two of the added plates.
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