La Petite Ville

by Dyl, Yan-Bernard. A livre d'artiste, illustrations and cover design after Dyl, text by Dyl

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A remarkable, inscribed, hors commerce copy with the publisher's wrappers bound into a superb, pictorial, painted vellum, fore-edge binding, signed and dated by the artist, Max de Beauregard-1926, on the inside of the upper cover. The 2 original paintings are executed directly on the vellum, one to each cover, in black, rose, charcoal and gray, using the Art Deco (Style Moderne) pictorial themes and perspectives introduced by Yan Dyl in his illustrations. DETAIL: Confirmed complete. As if unread, a very crisp, clean and fresh example: the only wear is to the added, hand painted vellum boards. Wrappers: pristine. Interior: Very Fine: as customary, offset to the flyleaf from the upper wrapper. Interleaf guards: pristine. Pochoir illustrations: pristine, very clean and fresh, the colors glistening. Binding: true with tight hinges: upper cover beginning to bend up: some edge wear: upper cover with rubs, a scour mark, and soiling: lower cover with rubs, a few mottle spots (none in painting), and some soiling. INSCRIPTION: Yan-Bernard Dyl, using a brush has signed in full in beautiful script on the flyleaf and written below, "visita". COLOPHON: Colophon signed, possibly by Daniel Kahnweiler. (Simon Kra was a pseudonym of Kahnweiler, the celebrated art dealer & publisher.) FORMAT: Vellum boards with an original painting on each cover. Publisher's beautiful, blue & green flock paper wrappers bound in, the upper wrapper illustrated with a design after Dyl with applied color and gold. Top edge gilt: headband alternates beige & brown stripes: brown silk book ribbon sewn in: additional blank leaves inserted. SUMMARY: A fine artist's book from the era of the 1920's when there was a great creative outpouring in the book arts in France under the influence of what has come to be called Art Deco or applied modernism. PAGINATION: Not paged, but 44 leaves: Flyleaf blank, Half-title leaf with a full-page pochoir beautifully lettered with title, "Avenir Ennui"; Suite of 20 hand colored leaves reproducing Dyl watercolors by the pochoir process and printed on only side of the paper, each protected by an interleaf guard leaf printed with a line of Dyl's text; colophon leaf, rear blank leaf. SIZE: As issued, 29.1 cm. PAINTINGS: 1) The 291 x 185 mm upper cover painting shows a French hill town below a medieval fortress, perhaps in the Pyrénées, where the architecture of the Midi Pyrenees changes, and the stone houses have steeply sloped roofs of stone. The houses and square are laid out below the crossing tower & castle and crossing bands are painted in black and rose along the inner margin, and across the lower foreground. The title is brushed in black and rose with stylized letters that repeat the elements of the crossing bands. They may symbolize that the town was on the roads to St. Jacques de Compostelle and by custom a halt for pilgrims. There is no vegetation and the architecture is stonewalls and battlements and tall, narrow houses with sharply sloped, red roofs and overhanging eaves. 2 bent, elderly, hatted figures, dwarfed by the buildings, lean toward each other, conversing in a town square and one can also see barely glimpsed figures in opposing 2nd story windows. The composition is framed by the broad, black crossing bands, highlighted by narrower bands painted in rose with a black border and the unpainted vellum becomes part of the pictorial space, the wide ivory margins left by the artist balancing the composition. There is a powerful sense of history and enclosed spaces. 2) The lower cover painting is a center, oval vignette that plays off of the design of the Dyl upper wrapper. With black lunettes that suggest a domino inside the frame, it sustains the themes of theatre, furtiveness, and masks that characterize Dyl's art deco illustrations with their dramatic, elongated postures, cut-off frames, strong verticals and predominant use of black. REFERENCE: Monod 4156; Charles Rahn Fry Pochoir Collection, Princeton University.

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