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ÉDITIONS DIANE DE SELLIERS - Fables by Jean... - Lot 24 - Oger - Blanchet
ÉDITIONS DIANE DE SELLIERS - Fables by Jean de La Fontaine illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry - The Flamboyant Middle Ages, Poetry and Painting - Orient A thousand years of poetry and painting - The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire illustrated by symbolist and decadent painting - Poetry, A season in hell. Illuminations of Rimbaud illustrated by modern painting. The five books presented in this lot constitute the beginnings of an ideal illustrated poetic library. "The world is old says one: I believe it / However it is necessary to amuse it like a child" says La Fontaine in his Fables. As for the ballads of the trouvères and troubadours of the flamboyant Middle Ages, they sing of love and humanity with astonishing freedom of spirit. Love that we find in every poem from the East, a thousand years of poetry and painting. And two great French poets, Baudelaire and Rimbaud, come to give us their vision of the world where emotions are expressed in the most unexpected spheres. The illustrations chosen for each of these books offer to the readers-viewers a possibility of escape and invite to infinite journeys. In 1992, Diane de Selliers shared her discovery of a rare and sumptuous complete edition of La Fontaine's Fables illustrated by Jean-Baptiste Oudry with 275 color engravings in the 18th century, by publishing it in her very young publishing house. After this publishing success, she continued to pursue her goal of publishing only one book per year, but a demanding and durable book, of very high quality both in terms of content and form. It thus creates the collection of "great texts of literature illustrated by the greatest painters". Year after year, the publishing house is built around one ambition: to share with readers the epics, poems, mythological and spiritual stories that have nourished, transformed and accompanied men since the dawn of time. For each book, the images are carefully selected according to criteria of beauty, rarity and relevance. Each book is a creation in its own right that requires a great deal of time and research, a creation that is accompanied by authors and cultural contributors of great quality. Donor: LES EDITIONS DIANE DE SELLIERS
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