Jean Gabriel Daragns, Composition, Jours De Gloire, Histoire De La Libration De Paris, Etching

Condition: Pre-Owned
Etching on papeteries vlin de Lana paper. Paper size: 11.024 x 8.66 inches. Excellent condition, with full margins. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Jours de gloire, Histoire de la libration de Paris, 1945. Published by the ministre de l'ducation nationale, Paris; printed by Imprimeries Aranennes & Tradition, MM. Chassepot, Lacouriere, Leblanc, Queneville, Paris, 1946. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), Jours de Glorie, published under the patronage of the ministre de l'ducation nationale, is sold for the benefit of the works of the French Red Cross for prisoners of war. The following have lent their assistance to the realization of this work: les etablissements Busson for typography & Bouan for phototype; as well as les Imprimeries Aranennes & Tradition, MM. Chassepot, Lacouriere, Leblanc, Queneville, for the printing of the engravings; papeteries de Lana for the edition was provided by the S. I. P. E., 5, Rue de Beaujolais, Paris. It was taken from this folio, XX numbered examples from I to X on Lana paper, signed by authors and artists; M examples, numbered: M on Lana paper; L examples, out of commerce on Lana paper, intended for all those who have ready their competition to the realization of this work, including XXV nominative examples, accompanied by a first state of the Picasso etching.

JEAN GABRIEL DARAGNS (1886-1950) was highly regarded both as a printmaker especially of wood engravings and etchings and also as a master printer of other artists work. Daragns was born in Bordeaux; his father was a carpenter. From 1900-1905 Daragns was apprenticed to a silversmith as an engraver. In 1907, having completed his military service, Jean-Gabriel Daragns went to Paris, dreaming of a life as a Bohemian painter in Montmartre. In order to survive, he took on all kinds of work, and soon turned from landscape painting to printmaking and the art of the book. Daragns was not mobilised for WWI as he suffered from tuberculosis. After the war he wanted to found his own press. By dint of selling everything he possessed, Daragns raised enough money to build a house at 14, avenue Junot in Montmarte, to his own plans, with a printroom on the ground floor, a painting and printmaking studio on the first floor, and living quarters above. There Daragns published some of the most beautiful books of the twentieth century, and also established a literary and artistic salon, whose members included Francis Carco, Pierre Mac Orlan, Colette, Lon-Paul Fargue, Nol Bureau, and Paul Valry. It was Daragns who taught Valry the art of etching.
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