Roseline Granet: Drawings (Limited edition portfolio, 2011)
30 Large Atlas Folio Plates
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First edition. Atlas folio (65 × 48cm), card portfolio titled in gilt to the front. Contents (all loose leaf): title page, 4pp text (the text repeated in French and English), 30 plates, plate index & artist's biography, colophon. Limited to 400 copies (this being one of the unnumbered 350 copies, the first 50 were issued with slipcase).
Roseline Granet (b. 1936) is one of France’s most distinguished contemporary sculptors, best known for her bronze monument to Jean-Paul Sartre at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and her "Human Rights" monument in Meudon. A student of the legendary Ossip Zadkine and the Art Students League of New York, Granet’s work is characterized by a fluid, kinetic energy that bridges the gap between figure and motion.
In 1960, Granet co-founded the famed Fonderie Clémenti, the foundry where she worked alongside masters like Giacometti and Miró. This portfolio represents a rare, intimate look at the two-dimensional draftsmanship that serves as the architectural soul of her world-renowned bronze sculptures.
Whilst best known for her sculptures, this is a rare limited edition of a selection of 30 of her drawings. All plates are present, and they are (the plate index also gives the dimensions of the original artworks):
1. Le Cri (The Scream),
2. Personnage en offrande (Offering figure),
3. Groupe a cinq (Group of five),
4. Ebahi (Flabbergasted),
5. Jeune fille a l'oiseau (Girl with bird),
6. Personnage fontaine (Figure fountain),
7. Jeune fille a l'oiseau (Girl with bird),
8. Grende recontre (Great encounter),
9. La grande recontre (The great encounter),
10. Elan a deux (Two to burst),
11. Elan a deux (Two to burst),
12. Elan a deux (Two to burst),
13. Personnage en offrande (Offering figure),
14. Personnage en offrande (Offering figure),
15. Fauteuil a deux (Armchair for two),
16. Fauteuil a deux (Armchair for two),
17. Grand Tango (Great tango),
18. Couple lourd (Heavy couple),
19. Couple (l'un porte l'autre) (Couple (one carrying the other)),
20. L'un porte l'autre (One carrying the other),
21. L'un porte l'autre (One carrying the other),
22. Couple ambigu (Ambiguous couple),
23. Couple ambigu (Ambiguous couple),
24. Couple ambigu (Ambiguous couple),
25. Couple ambigu (Ambiguous couple),
26. Petite liberte (Small freedom),
27. Petite liberte (Small freedom),
28. Sur la corde (On the rope),
29. Fuyard eperdu (Frantic figure),
30. Fuyard eperdu, (face) (Frantic figure (front view)).
Condition
This copy is in very good condition. It has been stored rolled up so there is a slight curve to it but this can be straightened out, and would not prevent the images being framed. There is minor creasing to one corner of the portfolio, and a very little edgewear to one or two of the plates. They remain in very clean condition, and, most importantly, all thirty plates are present. An increasingly scarce collection of Roseline Granet's not often seen drawings.
Further images are available on request.
ISBN
9782841032006
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Price
£175.00
